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The Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against someone due to any of these characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation.

Equality Act (2010)

An Act prohibiting and limiting actions involving wild animals, and the primary piece of legislation for wildlife protection in the UK. Prohibitions include taking, injuring, killing and disturbing.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981)

The Regulations enable the country agencies to enter into management agreements on land within or adjacent to a European site, in order to secure its conservation.

Conservation Regulations (1994)

Sets out the UK controls on veterinary medicines, including their manufacture, advertising, marketing, supply and administration.

Veterinary Medicines Regulations (2013)

The aim of this Act relates to a wide range of environmental issues, from the establishment of the Environment Agency and SEPA, to the provisions for contaminated land and abandoned mines, national parks, the control of pollution, etc.

Environment Act (1995)

Puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses).

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) (1995)

The law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) (2002)

PPE is to be supplied and used at work wherever there are risks to health and safety that cannot be adequately controlled in other ways.

The Personal Protective Equipment Regulations (2002)

This Act sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public.

The Health and Safety At Work Act (HASAWA) (1974)

These orders require bovine spongiform encephalopathy (1988) and all isolates of salmonella (1989) from farm animals and birds, their carcasses, products, feed or surroundings to be reported to an officer of MAFF.

The Zoonoses Order (1989)

An Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting or restricting certain types of dogs and codifying the criminal offence of allowing a dog of any breed to be dangerously out of control.

The Dangerous Dogs Act (1991) (Amended 2014)

This act protects the welfare of animals sold as pets. It requires any person keeping a pet shop to be licensed by the local council.

Pet Animals Act (1951)

Sets out the duties of local authorities in England to license activities involving animals and the relevant establishments relating to this.

The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018

An act of Parliament designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in organised paper filing systems.

Data Protection Act (1998)

This legislation sets out the minimum amount of pay a worker is entitled to per hour.

National Minimum Wage Act (1998)

This legislation puts a limit on the number of hours that workers can work each week.

Working Time Regulations (1998)

Contains a range of measures to improve the quality of the local environment by giving local authorities and the Environment Agency additional powers to deal with issues such as (but not limited to): noise, dogs, fly-tipping, and graffiti.

Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (2005)

An Act to make fresh provision for the management of the veterinary profession. It states that only a veterinary surgeon may practise veterinary surgery.

Veterinary Surgeons Act (1966)

This act deals with places where the boarding of animals is being carried out as a business. This act requires such establishments to be licensed by the local authority.

Animal Boarding Establishments Act (1963)

The Act brings together and updates legislation that exists to promote the welfare of vertebrate animals.

Animal Welfare Act (2006)