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An Act to prohibit the abandonment of animals; and for purposes connected therewith.
[2nd June 1960]
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
If any person being the owner or having charge or control of any animal shall without reasonable cause or excuse abandon it, whether permanently or not, in circumstances likely to cause the animal any unnecessary suffering, or cause or procure or, being the owner, permit it to be so abandoned, he shall be guilty of an offence of cruelty within the meaning of the principal Act and liable to the penalties prescribed by subsection (1) of section one of that Act, and the provisions of the Protection of Animals Acts shall apply to an offence under this section as they apply to an offence against the said subsection (1).
In this Act “the principal Act” and “the Protection of Animals Acts” mean respectively,—
(a)in relation to England and Wales, the M1Protection of Animals Act, 1911, as amended by or under any other enactment, and the Protection of Animals Acts, 1911 to 1954;
(b)in relation to Scotland, the M2Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912, as so amended, and the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Acts, 1912 to 1954,
and “animal” has the same meaning as in the principal Act.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Abandonment of Animals Act, 1960.
(2)This Act and the Protection of Animals Acts may be cited together as the Protection of Animals Acts, 1911 to 1960, or the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Acts, 1912 to 1960, as the case may be.
(3)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Abandonment of Animals Act 1960