Section 14
of Animal Welfare Enactment 2015
Section 14
(1)
The owner or a licensee shall have a duty to –
(a)
take reasonable steps to ensure that the needs of an animal are fulfilled, which includes –
(i)
its need for a place to live in a suitable environment;
(ii)
its need for a suitable diet;
(iii)
the need for it to be able to exhibit its normal behavioural patterns;
(iv)
the need for it to be housed with or apart from other animals;
and
(v)
the need for it to be protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease; and
(b)
ensure that the circumstance to which it is relevant to have regard to the needs of an animal under paragraph (a) includes –
(i)
any lawful purpose for which the animal is kept; and
(ii)
any lawful activity undertaken in relation to the animal.
(2)
Nothing in this section applies to the lawful destruction of any animal for any reasonable purposes in an appropriate and humane manner.
(3)
An owner or a licensee who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding seventy-five thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
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