Jeong gang who is the director of the internal and judicial committee which comes under the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress BM PC supports the new draft of the Beijing municipal regulation on dogs from the local government this new law is due to replace the current beijing municipal regulation on dog ownership introduced in 1989 the current regulation toxa strictly limiting dog ownership and controlling the number of dogs in the city the new draft focuses instead on strict management and combining restrictions with management topic Hong Kong as of 2010 Hong Kong has supplemented or replaced the laws against Cruelty with a positive approach using laws that specify how animals should be treated the government Department primarily responsible for animal welfare in Hong Kong is the Agriculture Fisheries and conservation department a FCD laws enforced by the AF CD include these the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ordinance also enforced by the police the public health animals and birds ordinance including regulations for licences imposed on livestock keepers and animal traders and a code of standards for licensed animal traders the dogs and cats ordinance the pound’s ordinance the rabies ordinance the wild animals protection ordinance in addition the food and environmental hygiene department fe EHD does the following enforces the public health and municipal services ordinance which includes regulations for slaughterhouses in wet markets publishes a code of practice for the welfare of food animals which describes their transport publishes operational guidelines for the welfare of food animals at slaughterhouses the Department of Health does the following enforces the animals control of experiments ordinance publishes a code of practice for the care and use of animals for experimental purposes of 2006 Hong Kong has a lot titled Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ordinance with a maximum 3-year imprisonment and fines of HKD $200,000 topic India the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 was amended in the year 1982 according to the newly amended Indian Animal Welfare Act 2011 Cruelty to Animals as an offense and is punishable with a fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees which may extend to twenty five thousand rupees or with imprisonment up to two years or both in the case of a first offense in the case of second or subsequent offense with a fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but may extend to one lakh rupees and with imprisonment with a term which shall not be less than one year but may extend to three years this amendment is currently awaiting ratification from the Government of India the 1962 Act in the meanwhile is the one that is practiced as of now the maximum penalty under the 1962 Act as ours 50 under one dollar many organizations including ones such as the local SPCA PFA and foster adopt are actively involved in assisting the general population in reporting cruelty cases to the police and helping bring the perpetrator to justice due to this much of change has been observed through the subcontinent Japan in Japan the 1973 Welfare and management of Animals Act amended in 1999 and 2005 stipulates that no person shall kill injure or inflict Cruelty to Animals without due course an in particular criminalizes cruelty to all mammals birds and reptiles possessed by persons as well as cattle horses goats sheep pigs dogs cats pigeons domestic rabbits chickens and domestic ducks regardless of whether they are in captivity killing or injuring without due reason up to one years imprisonment with labor or a fine of up to 1 million yen cruelty such as causing debilitation by discontinuing feeding or watering without due reason a fine of up to 500,000 yen abandonment a fine of up to 500,000 yen separate national and local ordinances exist with regards to ensuring health and safety of animals handled by pet shops and other businesses animal experiments are regulated by the 2000 law for the humane treatment and management of animals which was amended in 2006 this law requires those using animals to follow the principles outlined in the 3 rupees and use as few animals as possible and cause minimal distress and suffering regulation is at a local level based on national guidelines but there are no governmental inspections of institutions and no reporting requirement for the numbers of animals used topic Malaysia topic saudi-arabia veterinarian Lana Dunn and several Saudi nationals report that there are no laws to protect animals from cruelty since the term is not well defined within the Saudi legal system they point to a lack of a governing body to supervise conditions for animals particularly in pet stores and in the exotic animal trade with East Africa topic South Korea South Korea’s animal welfare laws are weak by international standards topic Taiwan the Taiwanese Animal Protection Act was passed in 1998 imposing fines up to $250,000 for cruelty criminal penalties for animal cruelty were enacted in 2007 including a maximum of one year imprisonment topic Thailand Thailand introduced its first animal welfare law in 2014 the cruelty prevention and welfare of animal act b e 2557 2014 came into being on the 27th of december 2014 Europe topic European Union the european union council directive 1999 seventy fourths ec is a directive passed by the european union on the minimum standards for keeping egg-laying hens which effectively bans conventional battery cages the directive passed in 1999 banned conventional battery cages in the EU from the 1st of January 2012 after a 13 year phase-out it is also illegal in many parts of Europe to declaw a cat topic France in France Cruelty to Animals is punishable by imprisonment of two years in a financial penalty 30 thousand euros topic Germany in Germany killing animals or causing significant pain or prolonged or repeated pain to them is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years or a financial penalty if the animal is a foreign origin the Act may also be punishable as criminal damage topic Italy acts of cruelty against animals can be punished with imprisonment for a minimum of three months up to a maximum of three years and with a fine ranging from a minimum of three thousand euros to a maximum of one hundred sixty thousand euros as for the law and degree 189 2004 topic Ireland the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 came into force in 2014 improving animal protection Portugal since the 1st of October 2014 violence against animals has been a crime in Portugal legislation published in the diario de república on the 29th of august criminalizes the mistreatment of animals and indicates that those who without reasonable cost inflict pain suffering or any other hardship to a companion animal abuse are to be subject to imprisonment of up to one year if such acts result in the death of the animal the deprivation of an important organ or member or serious and permanent impairment of its capacity of locomotion those responsible will be punished by imprisonment up to two years as for pets the new law provides that whoever having the duty to store monitor or pet watch abandons them thereby putting endanger their food in the provision of care owed faces up to six months imprisonment topic Sweden in Sweden Cruelty to Animals is punishable by financial penalty and the owner will lose the right to own the animals and the animals will be removed from the owner topic Switzerland the Swiss Animal Protection laws are among the strictest in the world comprehensively regulating the treatment of animals including the size of rabbit cages and the amount of exercise that must be provided to dogs in the canton of Zurich an animal lawyer Antoine ghoshal is employed by the Canton government to represent the interests of animals in animal cruelty cases topic turkey under Turkey’s Animal Protection Law Number five thousand one hundred ninety-nine Cruelty to Animals is considered a misdemeanor punishable by a fine only with no jail time or a black mark on one’s criminal record H a white EAP the animal rights Federation in Turkey believes that the present law does not contain a strong enough punishment for animal abusers topic united kingdom in the United Kingdom Cruelty to Animals as a criminal offense for which one may be jailed for up to six months on the 18th of August 1911 the House of Commons introduced the protection of animals act 1911 see 0.27 following lobbying by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSPCA the maximum punishment was six months of hard labor with a fine of 25 pounds in the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 fighting or baiting lions bears Badgers cocks dogs or other animals was prohibited in London with a penalty of up to one month imprisonment with possible hard labor or up to five pounds the law laid numerous restrictions on how when and where animals could be driven wagons unloaded etc it also prohibited owners from letting mad dogs run loose and gave police the right to destroy any dog suspected of being rabid or any dog bitten by a suspected rabid dog the same law prohibited the use of dogs for drawing carts up until then dogs were used for delivering milk bread fish meat fruit vegetables animal food the cat’s meat man and other items for sale and for collecting refuse the rag and bone man as Nigel Rothfeld notes the prohibition against dogs pulling carts in or near London caused most of the dogs to be killed by their owners as they went from being contributors to the family income to unaffordable expenses cart dogs were replaced by people with hand carts about 150,000 dogs were killed or abandoned erika fudge quotes Hilde keen at the heart of 19th century animal welfare campaigns as the middle-class desire not to be able to see cruelty the protection of animals act 1911 extended the ban on draft dogs to the rest of the kingdom as many as 600,000 dogs were killed or abandoned the protection of animals act 1911 has since been largely superseded by the Animal Welfare Act 2006 which also superseded and consolidated more than 20 other pieces of legislation including the protection of animals act 1934 in the abandonment of animals act 1960 the Act introduced the new welfare offense which means that animal owners have a positive duty of care and outlaws neglecting to provide for their animals basic needs such as access to adequate nutrition and veterinary care under the criminal damage act 1971 domestic animals can be classed as property that is capable of being damaged or destroyed a charge of criminal damage may be appropriate for the injury or death of an animal owned by someone other than the defendant although prosecution under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 may also be appropriate topic oceania topic Australia in Australia all states and territories have enacted legislation governing animal welfare the legislations are Animal Welfare Act 1992 a CT Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 NSW Animal Welfare Act NT Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 QLD Animal Welfare Act 1985 saw Animal Welfare Act 1993 tas Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 Vick Animal Welfare Act 2002 wah welfare laws have been criticized as not adequately protecting animals whilst police maintain an overall jurisdiction in prosecution of criminal matters in many states officers of the RSPCA and other animal welfare charities are accorded authority to investigate and prosecute animal cruelty offences topic New Zealand the Animal Welfare Act 1999 protects animals from maltreatment topics see also animal cognition animal consciousness bear-baiting Cambridge declaration on consciousness crush fetish goat throwing pain in animals poaching Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals topic references topic further reading R Luke Arnold brute force animal police and the challenge of Cruelty Purdue University Press the 15th of August 2004 hardcover 175 pages ISBN 1 five five seven five three three five zero for an ethnographic study of humane law enforcement officers Lee Suzanne good me 2007 delinquency and animal cruelty myths and realities about social pathology hardcover 168 pages is B and nine seven eight one five nine three three two one nine seven Oh Lee challenges the argument made by animal rights activists that animal cruelty enacted during childhood as a precursor to human directed violence Monroe H the battered pet 1999 in FS Joanie and PR cow Edie’s child abuse domestic violence and animal abuse West Lafayette Indiana Purdue University Press 199 to 208 fiber Austral Pamela Lovell Jarrod s 2016 behind a veil of secrecy animal abuse factory farms and AG gag legislation contemporary justice review online nineteen to 230 to 249 topic external links illustration of three dog milk cart in Flanders 1906 goldfish used in art to highlight morality Court finds no basis of Cruelty 2003 from BBC News pet abuse comm database of criminal animal cruelty cases animal cruelty 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