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South Australia
Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (Prohibited Surgical and Medical Procedures) Amendment
Bill 2003
A Bill For
An
Act to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1985.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
1985
4 Substitution of section 15
The Parliament of South Australia enacts
as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(Prohibited Surgical and Medical Procedures) Amendment Act 2003.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment
of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1985
Section 15—delete the section and
substitute:
15—Prohibited
surgical and medical procedures
(1) A person must not—
(a) dock
the tail of a dog; or
(b) dock
the tail of an animal of the genus Bos or Bubalus; or
(c) dock
or nick a horse's tail; or
(d) crop
an animal's ear; or
(e) surgically
reduce the ability of an animal to produce a vocal sound; or
(f) carry out any other surgical or medical
procedure on an animal in contravention of the regulations.
Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) However, a veterinary surgeon may carry out
the following surgical procedures in the following circumstances:
(a) a
veterinary surgeon may dock a dog's tail if satisfied the procedure is required
for therapeutic purposes;
(b) a
veterinary surgeon may dock the tail of an animal of the genus Bos or Bubalus,
or dock or nick a horse's tail, if the surgeon certifies in writing that the
procedure is necessary for the control of disease;
(c) a
veterinary surgeon may crop an animal's ear if satisfied the procedure is
required for therapeutic purposes;
(d) a
veterinary surgeon may surgically reduce the ability of an animal to produce a
vocal sound if satisfied that—
(i) the
procedure is required for therapeutic purposes; or
(ii) there is no other reasonably practicable means of preventing the animal from causing a nuisance by creating noise.