Section 24 — Power of court to prohibit or restrict exhibition and training of performing animals.

24. Power of court to prohibit or restrict exhibition and training of performing 

animals.―(1) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of any magistrate on a complaint made by a 

police officer or an officer authorised in writing by the prescribed authority referred to in section 23, 

that the training or exhibition of any performing animal has been accompanied by unnecessary pain or 

suffering and should be prohibited or allowed only subject to conditions, the court may make an order 

against the person in respect of whom the complaint is made, prohibiting the training or exhibition or 

imposing such conditions in relation thereto, as may be specified by the order.  



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(2) Any court by which an order is made under this section shall cause a copy of the order to be 

sent, as soon as may be after the order is made, to the prescribed authority by which the person against 

whom the order is made is registered, and shall cause the particulars of the order to be endorsed upon 

the certificate held by that person, and that person shall produce his certificate on being so required by 

the court for the purposes of endorsement, and the prescribed authority to which a copy of an order is 

sent under this section shall enter the particulars of the order in that register.