To finally bring Sabah and hopefully the rest of Malaysia into the 21st century where people are aware of what is really going on all these years and that wrongdoers will be punished. To let the world know that animal cruelty will not be tolerated and that there has been a law since 1925.
The Cruelty to Animals (Prevention) Ordinance of 1925 states that :-
3. Every person shall be guilty of an offence –
(a) who shall cruelly beat, ill-treat, torture, overdrive or overload, or cause or procure to be beaten, ill-treated, tortured, over-driven or overladen any animal;
(b) who, being in charge of any animal in course of transport from one place to another, neglects to supply such animal with sufficient food or water;
(c) who shall carry or cause to be carried any animal in such a manner or position as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering;
(d) who shall employ or cause to be employed in any work or labour any animal which in consequence of any disease, infirmity, wound, sore or otherwise is unfit to be so employed;
(e) who, being in charge of any animal in confinement, causes any unnecessary suffering by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act, or neglects to supply sufficient and proper food and water to such animal;
and shall for every such offence be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine of five hundred ringgit and to imprisonment for six months.
Why has no one ever been prosecuted and sentenced in court before? If the penalty of five hundred ringgit is too low, then increase it to fifty thousand followed by a mandatory imprisonment of six months as provided by this ordinance.
