ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
33. Employers and owners to produce drivers or animals if so required
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
33. Employers and owners to produce drivers or animals if so required
(1)Where proceedings are instituted under this Act or any regulation made thereunder against the driver or conductor of any vehicle, it shall be lawful for the court to issue a summons directed to the employer of the driver or conductor, as the case may be, requiring him, if it is in his power so to do, to produce the driver or conductor at the hearing of the case.(2)Where proceedings are instituted under this Act or under any regulation made thereunder it shall be lawful for the court to issue a summons directed to the owner of the animal requiring him to produce either at, or at any time before, the hearing of the case, as may be stated in the summons, the animal for the inspection of the court, if such production is possible without cruelty.(3)Where a summons is issued under either subsection (1) or (2) of this section and the owner or employer, as the case may be, fails to comply therewith without reasonable excuse, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three hundred shillings for the first offence and not exceeding six hundred shillings for the second or any subsequent offence on which he so fails, and may be required to pay the costs of any adjournment rendered necessary by his failure.