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 — Part animals

of cruelty to

YIIl. is

Cruelty to Animals.

concerned,

it is

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only necessary to point out

any person who is licensed {a) to slaughter horses and cattle must have affixed or painted over the door of the house or place where he carries on his business of a slaughterer, in large and legible characters, the name of the licensed person and the words " Licensed for slaughtering horses, pursuant to an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of His Majesty King George the Third." For an infraction of this provision he may on summary conviction be fined five pounds for every day on which the offence has been committed (b) Every person keeping, using, or acting in the management of any place (c) for the purpose of slaughtering horses or other cattle, not intended for butchers' meat, must immediately cut off the hair from the neck of such animal brought or delivered there, and kill it within three days, and properly feed it until it is killed, under a penalty of five pounds {d), and must not use or permit or cause it to be used, or permit it to leave the place to be employed in any manner of work under a penalty of forty shillings for every day on which the offence continues, to which penalty the person actually working the animal is also liable (e) he must also enter in a book a full and complete description of the colour, marks, and gender of the animal, and must produce such book or allow extracts to be made therefrom whenever required under a penalty of forty that

Sect.

2.

Special Offences,

.

Conduct

of

business,



All these penalties may be recovered summarily. licensed to slaughter horses may, while the licence in force, exercise the business of a horse-dealer (g). shillings

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No person

is

887. Any person who conveys or causes to be conveyed in or upon any vehicle any animal in such a manner as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering is liable to a penalty of three pounds for a first offence, and five pounds for subsequent offences (li),

Improperly

888. It is an offence for any person, not being the owner of the animal or acting by the authority of such owner, wilfully and

Administer-

Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847

&

11 Vict. c. 34), ss. 125—131 Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), ss. 169, 170; Pablic Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 59), ss. 29, 30, 31 Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76), ss. 19, 20 Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict, and London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14), s. 6 (4). c. 73), s. 27 (2) The subject is further dealt with under title Public Health. (a) To keep a slaughterhouse without a licence is a felony punishable by fine and imprisonment (26 Geo. 3, c. 71, s. 8). Both the person keeping the slaughterhouse and the slaughterhouse itself must be licensed. See the Acts mentioned in note (z), supra. (b) 26 Geo. 3, c. 71 Cruelty to Animals Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 92), s. 7. (c) The place need not be a licensed slaughterhouse. Where the huntsman of a pack of hounds, who had the sole management of a place at the kennels used solely as a slaughterhouse, permitted a horse sent to him for slaughter to leave the place to be employed in work, the Court held that he ought to have been convicted under s. 9 {Colam v. Hall (1871), L. E. 6 Q. B. 206). {d) Cruelty to Animals Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 92), s. 8. horse purchased by a slaughterer without any directions from the seller as to slaughtering, is "brought" to the premises within the meaning of this section (EdyavY. Spain (1901), 84 L. T. 631). (e) Cruelty to Animals Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 92), s. 9 (10











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s.

12.

As

to the carriage of animals generally, see title

Cauriers.

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