Written Question · S3W-33315 · Session 3
How the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 protects the welfare of racing greyhounds.
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 protects the welfare of racing greyhounds.
The answer
Section 24 of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 makes it an offence to fail to ensure that the needs of a protected animal are met. All dogs, including dogs used in greyhound racing, are protected animals.
The act describes an animal''s needs as including: its need for a suitable environment; its need for a suitable diet; its need to be able to exhibit normal behaviour patterns; any need it has to be housed with, or apart from, other animals; its need to be protected from suffering, injury and disease.
Section 19 of the act makes it an offence for the person responsible for an animal to cause it unnecessary suffering, either by an act or omission.
The act describes an animal''s needs as including: its need for a suitable environment; its need for a suitable diet; its need to be able to exhibit normal behaviour patterns; any need it has to be housed with, or apart from, other animals; its need to be protected from suffering, injury and disease.
Section 19 of the act makes it an offence for the person responsible for an animal to cause it unnecessary suffering, either by an act or omission.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-33315 by reference.