Cruelty to Animals
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 3547
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
November 22, 1929
ACT NO. 3547
AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to overdrive, overload, torture, torment, or neglect to provide with the necessary sustenance or shelter, or to cruelly beat, or needlessly mutilate or kill, or cause, or procure to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, tormented, or deprived of the necessary sustenance or shelter, or to be cruelly beaten, or needlessly mutilated or killed, any living creature. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than two hundred pesos, or by subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, November 22, 1929.
Cite This Law
Cruelty to Animals, Act No. 3547, Nov 22, 1929 (Philippines)
Cruelty to Animals, Act No. 3547 (Phil. 1929)
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