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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Enforcement orders

146: Notification of application

You could also call this:

"Telling people about your animal welfare application"

When you apply for an enforcement order under the Animal Welfare Act 1999, you must tell every person who will be directly affected by your application. You do this by serving them a notice of your application. You can find more information about when you do not have to do this in section 148.

You must serve the notice within 7 working days after you file your application in the District Court. The District Court can allow you more time to serve the notice if needed. This means you might have more than 7 working days to serve the notice.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Enforcement orders

146Notification of application

  1. Except as provided in section 148 (which relates to temporary enforcement orders), where an application for an enforcement order is made, the applicant must serve notice of the application on every person directly affected by the application.

  2. Every notice required to be served under this section must be served within 7 working days after the date on which the application is filed in the District Court or within such further time as the District Court may allow.

Notes
  • Section 146(2): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).