Consultation outcome

Penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
25 May 2023
Last updated
11 December 2023 — See all updates
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Summary of responses and government response

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Detail of outcome

The responses to this consultation showed support for the introduction of penalty notices across a range of animal health and welfare offences. The government will introduce legislation that will allow penalty notices to be issued for specified offences and statutory guidance will also be published on the use of penalty notices.

Detail of feedback received

Thank you to everyone who responded to this consultation. We received a total of 129 responses.

Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on the government’s proposals to introduce penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences in England.

This consultation was held on another website.

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Consultation description

The Animals (Penalty Notices) Act 2022 provides the government with powers to introduce penalty notices in England for relevant animal health and welfare offences.

We want to know your views on the range of animal health and welfare offences that could be covered by penalty notices. We are also seeking your views on how penalty notices should work in practice.

We will use your feedback to ensure the related statutory guidance that we publish is clear and transparent to enforcers and the general public.

Updates to this page

Published 25 May 2023
Last updated 11 December 2023 + show all updates

  1. We have added the summary of responses and government response.

  2. We received a total of 129 responses, which we are currently analysing. We expect to publish a summary of the responses we received before the end of 2023

  3. First published.

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