How many prosecutions there have been under the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 with regard to the incorrect shoeing of horses in…

Section 1 of the Protectionof Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 specifies numerous offences of crueltytowards animals. None of these offences relate specifically to the incorrectshoeing of horses. While such a procedure may, in certain circumstances, fallwithin the terms of a section 1 offence, the information system used by theCrown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service does not record the specific detailsof any such offence. This system is designed primarily as a case trackingsystem, and it has not been designed to facilitate the extraction of suchdetailed information about the facts of individual cases.