The Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2024

Applications

6.—(1) An individual who keeps or is proposing to keep a primate at any premises in England may apply for a primate licence to the local authority in whose area the premises are situated.

(2) An application may not be made by an individual—

(a) who is under the age of 18; or

(b) who is disqualified from keeping primates.

(3) The application must specify—

(a) the name and address of the applicant;

(b) the species of primate, and the number of primates of each species to be kept under the licence;

(c) the premises where the primates are to be kept;

(d) the date from which the applicant proposes that the licence should have effect; and

(e) where the applicant requests the licence to be granted for a period of less than three years, the date on which the applicant requests the licence to expire.

(4) The application must specify, in relation to each primate proposed to be kept under the licence—

(a) its name and sex;

(b) its species;

(c) its date of birth or, if not known, its approximate date of birth; and

(d) the number of any microchip implanted in the primate.

(5) The application must specify such other information, and be in such form, as the local authority may reasonably require.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation, an individual is disqualified from keeping primates if the individual is disqualified from keeping primates of any description under—

(a) section 34(2) of the Act;

(b) section 1 of the Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act 1954(1);

(c) section 40(1) of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006(2); or

(d) section 33(1) of the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011(3).

(1)

1954 c. 40 (2 & 3 Eliz 2); section 1 was repealed by Schedule 4 to the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

(2)

2006 asp 11; section 40(1) was amended by section 4(2)(a) of the Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 14).

(3)

2011 c. 16.