Republic Act 8485
The animal welfare
act of 1998
This is
the lesson we have taken under the subject Agsc6 agricultural science in
slaughtering of animals. And let me share to you what I have learned in our
discussion at the Republic Act 8485. This is an act that promotes animal’s
welfare in the Philippines otherwise known as the animal welfare act of 1998
now I will tell you the sections of this law.
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Section 1 - this is the purpose of this Act to
protect and promote the welfare of all animals in the Philippines by
supervising and regulating the establishment and option of all facilities
utilized for breeding, maintaining, keeping, treating or training of all
animals either as objects of trade or as household pets. For the purposes of
this act, pet animals shall include pets.
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Section 2 – no person, association, partnership,
corporation, cooperative or any government agency or instrumentality including
slaughter houses shall establish, maintain and operate any pet shop, kennel, veterinary
clinic, veterinary hospital, stockyard, corral, stud farm or stock farm or zoo
for breeding, treatment, sale or trading, or training of animals without
securing from the Bureau of Animal Industry a certificate of registration there
off.
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Section 3 – the director of animal industry
shall supervise and regulate the establishment, operation and maintenance of
pet shops, kennel, veterinary clinic, veterinary hospital, stockyard, corral,
stud farm or stock farm or zoo’s and any form of structure for the confinement
of the animals where they are bred, treated, maintained, or kept either for
sale or trade or for training as well as the transport of such animals in any
form of public or private transportation facility in order to provide maximum
comfort while in transit and minimize, if not totally eradicate, incidence of
sickness and death and prevent any cruelty from being inflicted upon the
animals.
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Section 4 – it shall be the duty of any owner or
operator of any land, air or water public utility transporting pet, wildlife
and all other animals to provide in all cases adequate, clean and sanitary
facilities for the safe conveyance an delivery thereof to their consignee at
the place of consignment.
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Section 5 – this is hereby created a committee
on animal welfare attached to the department of agriculture issue necessary
rules and regulations for the strict implementation of the provisions of this
Act, including the setting of safety and sanitary standards, within thirty
calendar days following its approval.
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Section 6 – it shall be unlawful for any person
to torture any animal, to subject any dog or horse to dogfights or horse fight,
kill or cause or procure to be tortured or deprived of adequate care,
sustenance or shelter, or maltreat or use the same in research or experiments
not expressly authorized by the Committee on Animal Welfare.
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Section 7 - it shall be duty of every person to
protect the natural habitat of the wildlife.
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Section 8 – any person who violates any of the
provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction by final judgment, be punished by
imprisonment of not less than six months nor more than two years of a fine or
not less than one thousand pesos nor more than five thousand pesos or both at
the discretion of the court.
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Section 9 – all laws, acts, decrees, executive
orders rules and regulation inconsistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
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Section 10 – this act shall take effect fifteen
days after its publication in at least two newspaper of general circulation.
References:
Ms. Nora Cabaral
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