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LAW OF UKRAINE

of February 21, 2006 No. 3447-IV

About protection of animals against ill treatment

(as amended on 23-03-2024)

This Law is directed to protection against sufferings and death of animals as a result of them abuse, protection of their natural rights and strengthening of morality and humanity of society.

Section I. General provisions

Article 1. Determination of terms

In this Law terms are used in the following value:

animals - the biological objects relating to fauna: agricultural, house, wild, including domestic and wild bird, fur, laboratory, zoo, circus;

wild animals are animals whose natural environment of existence is the wild nature, including being in bondage or semi-free conditions;

pets - dogs, cats and other animals who during long historical period traditionally contain and get divorced the person and also animals of the types or breeds which are artificially removed by the person for satisfaction of esthetic requirements and needs for communication who, as a rule, have no the viable wild populations consisting of individuals with similar morphological features and exist long time in their natural area;

farm animals are animals who contain and get divorced the person for product receipt and raw materials of animal origin;

homeless animals are the pets who were left without leaving of the person or formed semi-free groups capable to breed out of control of the person;

experimental animal - the animal used for carrying out scientific experiences, experiments;

euthanasia - the humane methods of killing of animals excluding them agonal sufferings;

cruel killing of animals - killing of animals without use of the anesthetics preventing feeling animals of pain and fear;

biosterilization - deprivation of animals by surgical or biological method of capability to reproduction of posterity (reproductive capability);

dolphinarium - the company, organization, the organization which part the complex of technical constructions and systems for content in the conditions of bondage of marine mammals, and also for the organization of shows with their participation is;

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