Clause 20 - Entry and search under warrant in connection with offences
Animal Welfare Bill
12:15 pm
Roger Gale (North Thanet, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment No. 28, in clause 29, page 14, line 8, after ‘8’, insert ‘or section [Pet fairs],’.
Amendment No. 30, in clause 30, page 15, line 36, after ‘8’, insert ‘section [Pet fairs],’.
Amendment No. 33, in clause 33, page 17, line 14, after ‘8’, insert ‘or section [Pet fairs],’.
Amendment No. 36, in clause 36, page 19, line 2, after ‘7’ insert ‘or section [Pet fairs]’.
Amendment No. 38, in clause 36, page 19, line 18, at end insert
‘(e)in the case of conviction for an offence under section [Pet fairs], to anything used to commit the offence.’.
New clause 2—Pet Fairs—
‘(1)A person commits an offence if he sells an animal in the course of or in connection with a pet fair.
(2)A person commits an offence if he arranges an animal fair or knowingly participates in making, or carrying out, arrangements for a pet fair.
(3)In this section, “pet fair” means an event—
(a)which is open to the public (whether on payment or otherwise),
(b)at which animals are sold (or which is held with a view to the sale of animals) as pets, and
(c)where any such sale is made (or is to be made) in the course of a business.
(4)Where a business consists wholly or mainly of the keeping or selling of animals, an event held in the ordinary course of that business at premises ordinarily occupied for the purposes of that business shall not constitute a pet fair.
(5)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“selling” an animal includes—
(i)offering or exposing it for sale,
(ii)exchanging it, or offering or exposing it for exchange, and
(iii)transferring, or agreeing to transfer, ownership of it in consideration of entry by the transferee into another transaction;
(b)the sale of an animal “as a pet” includes its sale for private captivity or private husbandry, but does not include its sale for any purpose relating to agriculture.’.