CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 450: Injuring animals

2004Section 450 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims, or wounds, any animal capable of
being stolen, is guilty of an offence.
If the animal in question is a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, bull, cow, ox,
goat, pig, ram, wether, or ostrich, or the young of any such animal, the offender is
guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
In any other case the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to imprisonment
for two years.

Cite this section

Section 450, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/450/