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WELFARE OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 10

Offences and penalties.

10.(1) Any person who

(a)keeps an unlicensed petshop, animal boarding, riding or
zoological establishment; or

(b)being licensed, fails, after reasonable warning, to comply with any
condition contained in his licence; or

(c)gives information which he knows to be false in a material particular to an
authorised officer acting in the exercise of his functions under this Part; or

(d)wilfully obstructs or delays an authorised officer in the exercise of his
functions under this Part;

(2) Any person guilty of an offence under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of
subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding #100 or to both,
or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to such imprisonment or to
a fine not exceeding #200 or to both, and any person guilty of an offence
under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding #25.

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