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Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act 1954

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3Increase in amount of fines under certain provisions of Protection of Animals Acts.

The maximum amount of the fine which may be imposed on a person convicted of an offence under any of the following enactments, that is to say, subsection (1) of section one of the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, subsection (1) of section one of the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912, subsection (4) of section one of the [23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 17.] Protection of Animals (Cruelty to Dogs) Act, 1933, and subsection (4) of section one of the [24 & 25 Geo. 5. c. 25.] Protection of Animals (Cruelty to Dogs) (Scotland) Act, 1934 (being respectively enactments which penalise certain offences of cruelty to animals and enactments which prohibit a person from keeping a dog or applying for or obtaining a dog licence while disqualified by an order of the court), shall, in the case of a person so convicted after the commencement of this Act, be increased from twenty-five pounds to fifty pounds.

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