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Protection Of Animals (Amendment) Act 1927 1927 c.27 An Act to amend the Protection of Animals Act, 1911. [22nd December 1927.]
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Protection Of Animals (Amendment) Act 1927
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1 Poisoned grain and flesh, &c.
For the proviso of section eight of the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, there shall be substituted thefollowing proviso, that is to say:— Provided that, in any proceedings under paragraph (b) of this section,it shall be a defence that the poison was placed by the accused forthe purpose of destroying insects and other invertebrates, rats, mice,or other small ground vermin, where such is found to be necessary inthe interests of public health, agriculture, or the preservation ofother animals, domestic or wild, or for the purpose of manuring theland, and that he took all reasonable preecautions to prevent injurythereby to dogs, cats, fowls, or other domestic animals and wildbirds.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1927, and shall be construed as one with the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Protection of Animals Acts, 1911 to 1927. (2) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland.
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