ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
10. Prohibition of certain public contests, performances and exhibitions with animals
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
10. Prohibition of certain public contests, performances and exhibitions with animals
(1)A person who promotes, or takes part in, or causes or knowingly permits to take place, any public performance which includes an episode consisting of or including—(a)throwing or casting, with ropes or other appliances, of any unbroken or untrained animal; or(b)riding, or wrestling, fighting or struggling with, any untrained animal; or(c)riding, or attempting to ride, any animal which by the use of any appliance or treatment involving cruelty is or has been stimulated with the intention of throwing off the rider,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to both.(2)For the purposes of proceedings under paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1), if an animal appears or is represented to spectators to be unbroken or untrained it shall lie on the defendant to prove that the animal is in fact broken or trained; and(3)In proceedings under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section in respect of the use of any such appliance or treatment as is therein mentioned upon an animal before or during a performance, it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to know, that the appliance or treatment was to be or was used.(4)In this section, "public performance" does not include a performance presented to the public by means of the cinematograph.