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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Offences - Further provisions relating to offences

170: Liability for damage

You could also call this:

"Paying for harm caused to animals or people"

If you are found guilty of breaking the Animal Welfare Act, the court can order you to pay money to someone else. This money is to help pay for something they lost because of what you did. The court decides how much money you have to pay. You have to pay this money, and if you do not, the court can make you pay it in the same way they make you pay a fine. If the court orders you to pay someone money, it does not stop that person from trying to get more money from you through other legal processes if what you paid is not enough.

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Part 8Offences
Further provisions relating to offences

170Liability for damage

  1. If a person is convicted of an offence against this Act, the court may order that that person pay to any other person such sum as the court thinks fit by way of compensation for any loss of property suffered by that second-mentioned person through or by means of the offence.

  2. An order for a payment under this section may be enforced in the same manner as a fine.

  3. An order under this section does not affect the right of a person to recover by civil proceedings any sum in excess of the amount paid under the order.