Penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences
Applies to England
Read the full outcome
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
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
Last updated 11 December 2023 + show all updates
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We have added the summary of responses and government response.
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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
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First published.