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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Enforcement orders

151: Power to vary or discharge enforcement order

You could also call this:

"The court can change or cancel an order to help animals if someone asks them to."

The District Court can change or cancel an enforcement order if it wants to. You can ask the court to do this, or the other person involved can ask. The court will make this decision after you or the other person applies to them.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Enforcement orders

151Power to vary or discharge enforcement order

  1. The District Court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of the applicant or the respondent, vary or discharge an enforcement order.

Notes
  • Section 151: amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).