ACT No. XXXIX of 2021 AN ACT to amend the Animal Welfare Act, Cap. 439.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

16th July, 2021

ACT No. XXXIX of 2021

AN ACT to amend the Animal Welfare Act, Cap. 439.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent to the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Animal Welfare (Amendment) Short title.

Act, 2021 and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the

Animal Welfare Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

In paragraph (b) of sub-article (1) of article 45 of the principal Amendment of

Act, the words "to both such fine and imprisonment." shall be article

principal Act.

substituted by the words "to both such fine and imprisonment:" and

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following proviso

"Provided that when a person is found guilty of a

breach of the provisions of this Act consisting of ill-treatment of

animals, the court may when it deems it to be appropriate, in

addition to the punishment, prohibit the person found guilty from

keeping animals or from residing in a place where animals are

kept for such period as the court may determine.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 487 of the

12th July, 2021.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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