Animal Protection Act｜第 12 條｜動物保護｜Act｜In Force
第 二 章｜農業部｜v1.0
Last Amended: 2021-05-19
12.1 No one shall be allowed to kill animals without due cause unless in any of the following situations: 12.1.1 For obtaining meat, skin, fur, feather or other intended economic gain that animal is reared for. 12.1.2 For scientific applications. 12.1.3 For epidemic control or species improvement. 12.1.4 For culling over-populated economic animals upon prior consent of competent authorities. 12.1.5 For relieving animals’ pain from injury or illness. 12.1.6 For preventing an imminent danger to the life, body, health, freedom or property of human, or to public security. 12.1.7 Animals in a shelter (or a designated local refuge)of an animal diagnosed by a veterinarian as having an incurable or notifiable infectious disease, causing unsanitary conditions, or posing hazards to human/animal health and public security. 12.1.8 For other circumstances in this Act or declared by the central competent authority. 12.2 The central competent authority may declare the type of animals banned from slaughter in Clause 12.1.1. 12.3 One must not do any of the following, even on pretext of Clause 12.1.1: 12.3.1 Killing a dog/cat, selling, buying, eating or possessing the remains (carcass or offal) or food containing ingredients thereof. 12.3.2 Selling the carcass of an animal banned from slaughter by the central competent authority. 12.4 Animals eligible for reclamation or adoption according to Clause 14.2 shall exclude those animals declared as banned from ownership, or importation in Article 8. However, for an animal already owned/imported and duly registered according to Clause 36.1 before the declaration, the owner is allowed to reclaim it. 12.5 Within two years from January 23, 2015 when this revision of the Act becomes effective, animal shelters -- or designated local refuges -- may kill those animals yet to be reclaimed, adopted or disposed of, after 12 days from the date of notification or public announcement. Such shelters are not bound by Clause 12.1.