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PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ACT 1911 - SECT 5

Compliance by knackers with certain regulations.

5.(1) Every person who shall carry on, or assist in carrying on, the trade or
business of a knacker shall observe and conform to the regulations set out in
the First Schedule to this Act, and, if any person, carrying on or assisting
in the carrying on of the said trade or business, contravenes or fails to
comply with, or causes or procures or permits any contravention or
non-compliance with, any such regulation, he shall be liable upon summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(2) Any constable shall have a right to enter any knacker's yard at any hour
by day, or at any hour when business is or apparently is in progress or is
usually carried on therein, for the purpose of examining whether there is or
has been any contravention of or non-compliance with the provisions of
this Act, and, if any person refuses to permit any constable to enter any
premises which he is entitled to enter under this section, or obstructs or
impedes him in the execution of his duty under this section, he shall, upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

Subs.(3) spent

(4) For the purposes of this Act, an animal shall be deemed to have been
delivered to a knacker if it has been delivered either to the knacker himself,
or to any person on his behalf, or at the knacker's yard.

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