Animal Welfare Act 1993

A court that finds the owner of an animal guilty of an offence under this Act in respect of the animal may, in addition to any other punishment it imposes in respect of the offence, order that the animal be sold or otherwise disposed of and that the proceeds of any sale be distributed in accordance with section 46.

A court must not make an order under subsection (1) unless it is satisfied that the provisions of section 8 are unlikely to be complied with.