ZWE - UA - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
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Zimbabwe / Animal production
ANIMAL WELFARE
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
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Section 3 Offences
(1) Any person who—
(a) cruelly beats, kicks, ill-treats, overrides, overdrives, overloads or tortures any animal or causes any animal so to be used; or […]
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Section 3 Offences
(1) Any person who—
[…] (d) by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act or by
causing or procuring the commission or omission of any act, causes any unnecessary
suffering to any animal; or […]
shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
(i) on a first conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such
imprisonment;
(ii) on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding four
hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both
such fine and such imprisonment.
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Section 16 (3) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide penalties for any breach thereof ad may also provide different penalties in cases of successive or continued breaches:
Provided that no such penalty shall exceed—
(i) a fine of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for a period of six months or both such fine and such imprisonment; or
(ii) in the case of a continuing offence, a fine of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for a period of six months or both such fine and such imprisonment or, if the offence has continued for more than thirty days, a fine of two dollars or imprisonment for a period of two days