Animal Welfare: Sentencing

(asked on 30th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will commence section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to allow for penalties available under section 32 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to come into force.


Answered by
Oliver Heald Portrait
Oliver Heald
This question was answered on 7th February 2017

The government takes animal welfare very seriously and continues to keep the maximum penalties under review.

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