Subjects:

Animal Law

Contents:

Chapter 1 Ownership, Theft and Owners' Responsibilities

Chapter 2 Sale and Agistment

Chapter 3 Movement, Import and Export of Animals

Chapter 4 Pet Animals

Chapter 5 Horses

Chapter 6 Dangerous Wild Animals

Chapter 7 Animals as Game

Chapter 8 Protection of Animals

Chapter 9 Animal Diseases

Chapter 10 Exhibitions, Public Performances and Zoos

Chapter 11 Pests

Chapter 12 Experiments

Appendices: A Calculation Tables for the Transportation of Animals

B Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000, Schedule 3, Part 1

C Animals Affected by the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974

D Kinds of Dangerous Wild Animals

E Definition of ""Animal"" for the purposes of the Protection of Animal Acts

F Prohibited Methods of Killing or Taking Wild Animals

G Spring Traps Approved by Ministers

H Special Grounds for Appeal against a Notice Requiring Structural Works under Section 4 of the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949

I Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, Schedule 2A

Index

This text presents many of the facets of the law which affect those who have any sort of dealing with animals, whether their own or other people's. It spans topics from the keeping of wild animals to the preservation of rare creatures. It also examines the training of performing animals and the keeping of coypus, and the expert of horses to the import of hares.