A bill to Make provision for the application of non-molestation orders and occupation orders to behaviour relating to pets; to amend definitions of controlling or coercive behaviour and economic abuse to include behaviour relating to pets; to extend the application of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders to pets; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendments to the Family Law Act 1996¶
(h) require the respondent to allow the applicant to retain possession of a relevant animal and to refrain from harming or threatening to harm such an animal.
(e) require the respondent to allow the applicant to retain possession of a relevant animal and to refrain from harming or threatening to harm such an animal.
(e) require the respondent to allow the applicant to retain possession of a relevant animal and to refrain from harming or threatening to harm such an animal.
(e) require the respondent to allow the applicant to retain possession of a relevant animal and to prohibit the respondent from harming or threatening to harm such an animal.
(e) require the respondent to allow the applicant to retain possession of a relevant animal and to prohibit the respondent from harming or threatening to harm such an animal.
.(c) provision prohibiting the respondent from molesting a relevant animal.
.relevant animal means any domesticated pet that is owned or kept by an applicant for an occupation order or a molestation order, or cared for by a relevant child.
2 Amendments to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021¶
(c) access or care for a pet owned or kept by B.
.(4A) “Controlling or coercive behaviour” includes behaviour by A in relation to a pet owned or kept either— (a) by B, or (b) jointly by A and B.
.(d) may not harm, or threaten harm, towards any pet owned or kept by the person for whose protection it is made.