Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act (No. 5 of 1993)

No. 5 of 1993. The Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1993. ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA I Assent, Wilfred Jacobs, Governor-General. 17th February, 1993. ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA No. 5 of 1993. AN ACT to amend the Protection of Animals Act (Cap. 113). February, 1993.1 ENACTED by the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda as 1. This Act may be cited as the Protection of Animals title. (Amendment) Act, 1993. 2. The Protection of Animals, in this Act referred to as the Amendment principal Act, is amended in section 2 by the insertion after the definition of "cruelty" of the "Minister" means the Minister responsible for Agricul ture. 3. The principal Act is amended by the insertion after section Insertion the section 5A in the principal Act. 5A (1) Notwithstanding the provisions section 5, where any is being subjected to the Minister may authorise the Commissioner of Police to cause the animal to be seized and place it in the care of any person authority as the Minister may direct. [L.S] [18th follows 5 of following section "Seizure of animal subject to cmelty. cmelty, following of animal Short of section 2 of Cap. 113. of ANTIGUA 2 AND BARBUDA The Protection of Animals No. 5 of 1993. (Amendment) Act, 1993. (2) Immediately after authorising the sei zure of an animal under subsection the Minister shall by notice in the Gazette, notify the owner or any person in charge of the animal of its seizure and require the owner or the person in charge of the animal to claim the animal and give reasons why he has caused the animal to suffer. (3) If the owner of the animal seized does not make a claim of the animal within 14 days of the notice given under subsection (2) or fails to give satisfactory reason to the Minister why he has failed to take good care of the animal, the animal shall be considered to be forfeited to the Crown from the date of the seizure. (4) In making an order for the seizure of an animal under this section, the Minister may give any other order that is necessary for the proper maintenance or disposal of the animal. (5) No person may reclaim an animal seized under the provisions of this section (a) he gives satisfactory proof to the Minister, that he is in a position to provide proper maintenance and care to the animal; (b) he pays the cost incurred in the maintenance of the animal during its seizure: (c) he gives an undertaking to report to the Minister at times to be specified by the Minister on the maintenance of the animal; and where necessary allows any person authorised by the Minister supervise the maintenance of the animal. (1), unless (d) he to No. 5 of 1993. The Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1993. 3 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA (6) An order made under this section be a bar to the prosecution of any person who contravenes the provisions of this Act." 4. The principal Act is amended by the insertion after section Insertion 9 of the section 10 in the principal Act. "Regulations. 10. (1) The Minister may make tions prescribing anything which is required or authorised by this Act to be prescribed and generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act. Regulations made under this section may (a) the method of disposal or sale of any animal seized under this Act; (b) the costs that may be paid by any person whose animal is seized un der Act; the fines which may be charged for any purpose under this Act and the regulations." Passed the House of Representatives Passed the Senate this this 25th day of January, 1993. lth day of February, 1993. C. L. Murray, Speaker. L. A. Clerk to the House of Representatives. B. T. Carrott, President. L. A. Clerk to the Senate. Printed at the Government Printing Office, Antigua and Barbuda, by James Adolphus Sebastian, Government Printer Authority, 1993. 800-2.93 [Price shallnot following section (2) prescribe (c) Dowe, this McKenzie By of Regula 1 Dowe, $1.55]