In this Part, references to being responsible for an animal mean being responsible for it on a permanent or temporary basis.

In this Part, references to being responsible for an animal include being in charge of it.

For the purposes of this Part, a person who owns an animal is always to be regarded as being a person who is responsible for it.

For the purposes of this Part, a person (“person A”) is to be regarded as responsible for any animal for which a person who is under 16 years of age, of whom person A has actual care and control, is responsible.

For the purposes of this Part, a person does not relinquish responsibility for an animal by reason only of abandoning it.