Animals Protection Amendment Act 54 of 1983

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54 of 1983

Animals Protection Amendment Act. 1983 (No. 54 of 1983)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
[ ] Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.
__ Words underlined with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

to amend the Performing Animals Protection Act, 1935, and the Animals Protection Act, 1962, so as to further regulate certain penalties that may be imposed thereunder; and
to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 27 April 1983.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 7 of Act 24 of 1935, as amended by section 4 of Act 7 of 1972.

1. Section 7 of the Performing Animals Protection Act, 1935, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (e) of the following paragraph:

"(e) a penalty of a fine not exceeding [fifty] one thousand
rand or imprisonment for a period not exceeding
[three] twelve months for a contravention of any regulation,".

Amendment of section 8 of Act 24 of 1935, as amended by section 5 of Act 7 of 1972.

2. Section 8 of the Performing Animals Protection Act, 1935, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

"(1) Any person contravening the provisions of this Act or any regulation made, thereunder for which a penalty has not been prescribed or any condition of a licence or certificate shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [two hundred] one thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [three] twelve months [for a first offence and to a fine not exceeding four hundred rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months for any subsequent offence].".

Amendment of section 2 of Act 71 of 1962, as amended by section 21 of Act 102 of 1972.

3. Section 2 of the Animals Protection Act, 1962, is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (1) for the words following paragraph(s) of the following words:

"shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and any other law, be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [two hundred] one thousand rand or in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [six] twelve months or to such imprisonment without the option of a fine, or, where any such act or omission is of a wilful and an aggravated nature, to a whipping not exceeding six strokes or to both such a fine and such a whipping or to both such imprisonment without the option of a fine and such a whipping.".

Amendment of section 10 of Act 71 of 1962.

4. Section 10 of the Animals Protection Act, 1962, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

"(2) Such regulations may prescribe penalties for contravention thereof or failure to comply therewith not exceeding a fine of [two hundred] one thousand rand or imprisonment for a period of [six] twelve months.".