New Zealand Legislation: Acts

12 Animal welfare offences

• A person commits an offence who, being the owner of, or a person in charge of, an animal,—

  • (a) fails to comply, in relation to the animal, with section 10; or

  • (b) fails, in the case of an animal that is ill or injured, to comply, in relation to the animal, with section 11; or

  • (c) kills the animal in such a manner that the animal suffers unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress.

  Compare: 1960 No 30 s 3(b); 1983 No 141 s 3(1)