Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

Functions in connection with entry under section 18N.I.

16—(1) Where a person enters premises in exercise of a power of entry conferred by section 18(1), or by a warrant under section 18(4), that person may—N.I.

(a)inspect an animal found on the premises;

(b)remove a carcass found on the premises for the purposes of carrying out a post-mortem examination on it;

(c)remove for those purposes the carcass of an animal destroyed on the premises in exercise of power conferred by section 17(3) or (4);

(d)take a photograph of anything on the premises.

(2) Where a person exercising a power of entry under section 18(1) is accompanied by another person under paragraph 6, the other person may exercise any power conferred by sub-paragraph (1) if that person is in the company of, and under the supervision of, the person exercising the power of entry.