The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

Suitable environment S

4.—(1) Each rabbit must have access to—

(a) a clean, dry and warm sleeping area which is free from draughts, and

(b) an exercise area.

(2) Each rabbit must be provided with sufficient space in the sleeping area to—

(a) lie down fully stretched out,

(b) hop, and

(c) turn around,

without touching another rabbit or the walls of the sleeping area.

(3) The exercise area must not be used as a sleeping area unless the rabbit chooses to do so.

(4) For each breeding female rabbit, there must be—

(i) a nesting box to give birth in and which is lined with suitable nesting material such as dust-free wood shavings or grass hay, or

(ii) a plentiful supply of such nesting material available to the rabbit.

(5) The nesting box must not be accessible to other rabbits when being used by a breeding female rabbit to give birth in.

(6) In this paragraph, “exercise area” means a secure area where rabbits can hop, scratch, forage and stretch to their full height.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1