Animal Welfare Act 1999

Care of animals - Transport of animals

22: Transport of animals

You could also call this:

"Looking after animals when moving them by car, plane, or boat"

When you are in charge of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship that is transporting an animal, you must make sure the animal's welfare is properly looked after. You need to provide the animal with a reasonably comfortable and secure place to be, and give it enough food and water. If you are transporting an animal, it is your responsibility to ensure its basic needs are met.

If you do not follow these rules and do not have a good reason for not doing so, you can commit an offence. This means you could get in trouble with the law if you do not take care of the animal properly while it is being transported. You must take care of the animal and make sure it is safe and healthy while it is in your care.

You have to make sure the animal has what it needs to be comfortable and healthy, like food, water, and a safe place to be, when you are transporting it.

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Part 1Care of animals
Transport of animals

22Transport of animals

  1. Every person in charge of a vehicle or an aircraft, and the master of or, if there is no master, the person in charge of, a ship, being a vehicle, aircraft, or ship in or on which an animal is being transported, must ensure—

  2. that the welfare of the animal is properly attended to; and
    1. that, in particular, the animal—
      1. is provided with reasonably comfortable and secure accommodation; and
        1. is supplied with proper and sufficient food and water.
        2. A person commits an offence who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any provision of subsection (1).