Singapore legislation

Clause 43

of Animals Ordinance

Clause 43

Cruelty to animals

(1)

Any person who —

(a)

cruelly beats, kicks, ill-treats, over-rides, over-drives, over-loads, tortures, infuriates or terrifies any animal;

(b)

causes or procures or, being the owner, permits any animal to be so used;

(c)

being in charge of any animal in confinement or in course of transport from one place to another neglects to supply such animal with sufficient food and water;

(d)

by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act, causes any unnecessary pain or suffering or, being the owner, permits any unnecessary pain or suffering to any animal;

(e)

causes, procures or, being the owner, permits to be confined, conveyed, lifted or carried any animal in such manner or position as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering;

(f)

employs or causes or procures or, being the owner, permits to be employed in any work of labour, any animal which in consequence of any disease, infirmity, wound or sore, or otherwise is unfit to be so employed; or

(g)

causes, procures or assists at the fighting or baiting of any animal, or keeps, uses, manages, or acts or assists in the management of any premises or place for the purpose, or partly for the purpose, of fighting or baiting any animal, or permits any premises or place to be so kept, managed or used, or receives or causes or procures any person to receive, money for the admission of any person to such premises or place,shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment:Provided that where an owner is convicted of having permitted cruelty to an animal under the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, an owner shall be deemed to have permitted cruelty to an animal, if he shall have failed to exercise reasonable care and supervision in respect of such animal.

(3)

Nothing in this section shall apply to the commission or omission of any act in the course of the destruction, or the preparation for destruction of any animal as food, unless such destruction or such preparation was accompanied by the infliction of unnecessary suffering.

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