New Zealand Legislation: Acts

23 Other offences in relation to transport of animals, etc

• (1) A person commits an offence who, without reasonable excuse, confines or transports an animal in a manner or position that causes the animal unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress.

  (2) A person commits an offence who, being the owner of, or the person in charge of, an animal, permits that animal, without reasonable excuse,—

  • (a) to be driven or led on a road; or

  • (b) to be ridden; or

  • (c) to be transported in or on a vehicle, an aircraft, or a ship,—

  while the condition or health of that animal is such as to render it unfit to be so driven, led, ridden, or transported.

  Compare: 1960 No 30 s 3(f), (o); 1983 No 141 s 3(3)