UK Animal Welfare Act 2006 — duty of care and unnecessary suffering offences (cover all pet species)
Verbatim first-hand facts from legislation.gov.uk — Animal Welfare Act 2006 (sections 4 and 9), EN, fetched via local chromium / Tokyo relay and saved as pdf-raw/exotic-b4/uk_awa_pet_1951.txt. Every bullet below is an exact substring of the cited source and is C1-substring verified. These are the species×country regulation facts for the jurisdiction indicated.
Regulatory facts
- an act of his, or a failure of his to act, causes an animal to suffer
- the suffering is unnecessary
- A person commits an offence if he does not take such steps as are reasonable in all the circumstances to ensure that the needs of an animal for which he is responsible are met to