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Environmental Health
Lewes District Council
Southover House
Southover Road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1AB


Tel: 01273 484354
ehealth@lewes.gov.uk
Minicom 01273 484488

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• Blue Cross
• National Animal Welfare Trust
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• OPSI: Animal Welfare Act 2006

Animal Welfare

The law protects the walfare of animals to ensure they are protected from suffering and kept in a safe, suitable environment.

Under the Animal Welfare Act, the law has been improved. Being cruel to an animal is against the law and you must also ensure that all the welfare needs of your animal are adequately met. This applies to owners and keepers and include the need;

• For a suitable environment.
• For a suitable diet.
• To be able to exhibit normal behaviour patterns.
• To be housed with, or apart from, other animals where needed.
• To be protected from pain, injury,suffering and disease.
  

The law has increased the minimum age to 16 at which a person can buy an animal and stops giving animals as prizes to unaccompanied children under this age. Cruelty or not providing the welfare needs of an animal may conclude in a ban from owning animals and a fine of up to £20000 and or a prison sentence.