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ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 11 What is an animal

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 11

What is an animal

11 What is an animal

(1) An
"animal" is any of the following—
(a) a live member of a vertebrate animal taxon;
Examples—
• an amphibian
• a bird
• a fish
• a mammal, other than a human being
• a reptile
(b) a live pre-natal or pre-hatched creature as follows if it is in the last half of gestation or development—
(i) a mammalian or reptilian fetus;
(ii) an avian, mammalian or reptilian pre-hatched young;
(c) a live marsupial young;
(d) a live invertebrate creature of a species, or a stage of the life cycle of a species, from the class Cephalopoda;
Examples—
cuttlefish, nautilus, octopi, squid
(e) a live invertebrate creature of a species, or a stage of the life cycle of a species, from the class Malacostraca prescribed by regulation for this paragraph.
Examples—
crabs, crayfish, lobsters, prawns
(2) However, a human being or human fetus is not an animal.
(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the following are not animals
(a) the eggs, spat or spawn of a fish;
(b) a pre-natal, larval or pre-hatched creature, other than a creature mentioned in subsection (1) (b) or (c) ;
(c) another immature form of a creature, other than a creature mentioned in subsection (1) (a) to (c) .