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permitting to be conveyed or carried, any animal in suci 

 manner or position as to cause that animal unnecessary 

 suffering ; (c) causing, procuring, or assisting at the fighting 

 or baiting of any animal ; (rf) wilfully without any reasonable 

 cause or excuse administering or causing or procuring or (being 

 the owner) permitting the administration of any poisonous or 

 injurious drug or substance to any animal : (e) subjecting or 

 causing or procuring, or (l)eing the owner) permitting any 

 animal to be sul)jected to any operation which is performed 

 without due care and humanity. An owner will be deemed 

 to have permitted cruelty if he shall have failed to exercise 

 reasonable care and supervision. The punishment is a fine 

 not exceeding 25/., or imprisonment not exceeding six months. 

 It is provided that nothing in this section is to render illegal 

 any act lawfully done under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 

 (relating to vivisection), or shall apply (a) to the commission 

 or omission of any act in the course of the destruction or the 

 preparation for destruction of any animal as food for mankind 

 unless such destruction or preparation is accompanied by the 

 infliction of unnecessary suffering ; or (b) to the coursing or 

 hunting of any captive animal unless such animal is lil)erate(l 

 in an injured, mutilated, or exhausted condition. Section 2 

 empowers the Court to order the destruction of any animal 

 where the owner has been convicted of cruelty and the Court is 

 satisfied that it would be cruel to keep the animal alive, but 

 without the assent of the owner no order is to lie made under 

 this section except upon the evidence of a duly registered 

 veterinary surgeon. Section 3 enables the Court to deprive a 

 person convicted of cruelty to an animal of the ownership of 

 the animal. Under section 4 compensation not exceeding MH. 

 to the person sustaining damage or injury may be ordered to be 

 paid by any person for cruelty to any animal causing damage 

 or injury to the animal or any person or property. Section 5 

 requires persons carrying on the trade of knackers to comply 

 with certain regulations. Section 6 forbids any person licensed 

 to slaughter horses from l)eing horse dealers at the same time. 

 Section 7 imposes on any person impounding any animal the 

 duty of supplying it while so impounded with sufficient 

 wholesome and suitable food and water, and enacts that the 

 reasonable cost of the food and water supplied shall be 

 recoveral)le summarily from the owner of the animal as a civil 

 debt. Section 8 makes it an offence liable to a fine not 

 exceeding 5/. (a) to sell, expose for sale, or give aAvay any grain 

 or seed which has been rendered poisonous except for bond fidr 

 use in agriculture, or (A) to knowingly put or place or cause 

 any person to put or place upon any land or building any 

 poison or any fluid or edible matter (not being sown seed or 



