Part III Welfare and Export

Care

38 Food and water.

F1(1)

The Ministers may make such orders as they think fit for ensuring for animals a proper supply of food and water—

(a)

for any period in which the animals are detained; and

(b)

during their passage by sea or by air and on landing.

(2)

The following bodies—

(a)

The Boards established by the M1Transport Act 1962,

(b)

F2the London Transport ExecutiveF3Transport for London, and

(c)

every railway company,

shall to the satisfaction of the appropriate Minister provide food and water, or either of them, at such railway stations as the appropriate Minister by general or specific description directs, for animals carried, or about to be or having been carried, on the railway of any of those bodies, and the additional provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act have effect accordingly.

In this subsection and in Schedule 4—

(i)

references to the bodies mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) include F4in the case of those mentioned in paragraph (a) wholly-owned subsidiaries of those bodies F5and in the case of Transport for London, any of its subsidiaries (within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999);

(ii)

“railway company” includes a person working a railway under lease or otherwise.