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Issued by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
September 2005

ISBN 0 7559 2715 X

This document is also available in pdf format (372k)

Contents

An overview of the consultation
Responses to the consultation
(1) The published consultation document
(2) The consultation meetings
The structure of the written responses
Reactions to the consultation
(1) The view of SEERAD
(2) The view of the responders
Reactions to the proposals:
Some general views
Views on the health provisions
Views on the welfare provisions
Responses to the consultation: methodology

Part 1: Animal Health
Question 1: Giving of greater flexibility of action to deal with foreign, fast spreading animal diseases
Question 2: Culling of animals close to an area already affected by a fast spreading disease
Question 3: Slaughter of vaccinated animals
Question 4: Application of criminal offences to the new Biosecurity Code
Question 5: Licensing of animal gatherings (including animal dealers)
Question 6: Powers of inspectors to check for animal disease and to take samples for analysis
Question 7: Vaccination or treatment of an animal beyond the current area limit
Question 8: Deliberate infection of animals with disease
Question 9: Clarification and extension of powers to seize and safely dispose of carcases
Question 10: Deliberate infection of an animal
Question 11: Power of courts to ban those convicted from future keeping of, or dealing in, animals
Question 12: Proposed powers of Ministers to deal with TSEs
Question 13: Powers of entry
Question 14: Stopping of vehicles, with police attendance, in a disease infected area
Question 15: Sentencing policy for offences
Question 16: Arrangements for publishing legal matters
Question 17: Use of animal samples for other diagnostic purposes
General comments on Part 1

Part 2: Animal Welfare
Question 1: Definition of "animal" and "protected animal"
Question 2: Definition of the person responsible for an animal
Question 3: Scope of unnecessary suffering
Question 4: Definition of mutilations and specified procedures
Question 5: Scope of the offence of cruel operations and administration of poisons
Question 6: Scope of animal fights
Question 7: Provisions to ensure the welfare of animals
Question 8: Powers of Scottish Ministers to license and register animal related activities
Question 9: Prohibition by regulation of the keeping of any animal kept at domestic or other premises
Question 10: Scope of the offence of abandonment
Question 11: Prohibition on the selling of animals to persons under 16 years of age
Question 12: Prohibition on the giving of animals as prizes
Question 13: Powers of an inspector or constable
Question 14: Powers available to courts to deal with animals taken into possession
Question 15: Powers available to courts to deal with animals taken into possession
Question 16: Destruction of an animal
Question 17: Animal welfare advisory bodies
Question 18: Procedures of and legal status of animal welfare codes of practice
Question 19: Provisions of deprivation orders, destruction orders, disqualification orders, breach of disqualification orders and the suspension of orders pending appeal
Question 20: Timescales for bringing proceedings for an offence under the Bill
Question 21: Bodies corporate or Scottish partnerships and individuals within them
Question 22: Range of penalties for the different offences
Question 23: Exclusion of fishing from the scope of the welfare part of the Bill
Question 24: System for appointing Inspectors and civil or criminal liability
Question 25: Powers of entry, search, inspection and seizure of authorised persons
Question 26: Provisions for making regulations under the Bill
Other subjects raised by responders in Part 2 of the Bill

Draft Regulatory Impact Assessment
List of responders: organisations and businesses

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