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Animal Welfare Act 1999

8: Act to bind the Crown

You could also call this:

"The government must follow the same animal welfare rules as everyone else."

This Act applies to the Crown. You need to know that the Crown is a term used to describe the government. The Act has rules that the Crown must follow, just like everyone else. The Crown owns some animals, like those covered by the Wild Animal Control Act 1977 or the Wildlife Act 1953. If the Crown owns or manages wild animals because of these laws, it does not mean the Crown is responsible under this Act for those animals.

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8Act to bind the Crown

  1. This Act binds the Crown.

  2. Despite subsection (1), where the Crown—

  3. is the owner of any animal or wildlife by virtue of—
    1. section 9(1) of the Wild Animal Control Act 1977; or
      1. section 57(3) of the Wildlife Act 1953; or
      2. is, by virtue of any other Act, the owner of any other animal (being an animal in a wild state); or
        1. has, under any other Act, the responsibility of administering and managing an animal (being an animal in a wild state),—
            1. the ownership of the animal or wildlife, or the responsibility of administering and managing the animal, does not of itself make the Crown subject to any obligation or liability under this Act in respect of the animal or wildlife.