Hassan Al -Sitry
A draft law from the government to “deputies”
The government referred to the House of Representatives a bill on the regulation of possession and circulation of dangerous animals, accompanying Decree No. (15) of 2025, including sanctions that reach life imprisonment for the owner of any dangerous animal if an attack on a person led to his death.
The draft law referred to aims to develop legal frameworks that guarantee the organization and circulation of dangerous animals, and to fill the legislative void of the lack of penalties for those animals without a license or permission from the competent authorities in the Kingdom, which endangers lives and property at risk.
The draft law – as well as the preamble – consists of four chapters, by (16) articles where the first chapter dealt with the organization of general provisions such as definitions, the objectives of the law and the exceptions contained thereof, and the second chapter came with the provisions regulating the possession, circulation and propagation of dangerous animals through the statement of licensing and obligations of establishments, and the third chapter dealt with the organization of penalties and judicial seizure, and the fourth chapter came with the final rulings through stipulating the fees and reconciling the conditions.
According to the draft law, any natural or legal person is prohibited by possession, circulation, or propagation of any of the dangerous animals, as it is prohibited for any zoos, animal parks, and the circus possession, circulation or propagation of any of the dangerous animals except after obtaining a license to do so from the ministry concerned with livestock affairs, and it is prohibited to roam with dangerous animals outside the facility, or take them in public places.
Anyone who uses an animal is punished with imprisonment for a period of no less than three years, and not more than seven years.
The penalty shall be imprisonment and a fine of no less than one thousand dinars, and not more than ten thousand dinars, or one of these two penalties, if the result of the attack does not reach the degree of the division shown in the previous paragraph.
And if the animal assaulted the danger to others inadvertently from the holder at the time of the attack, he is criminally punished with the penalty of wrongful killing or causing a mistake to prejudice the integrity of the body of others in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code issued by Decree Law No. (15) of 1976, and in all cases, the animal that was used to commit any of the crimes stipulated in the previous paragraphs, with the holding of the holder or the provincial expenses, the expenses of reservations The court may stipulate the confiscation of the animal.
And with the absence of any severe punishment stipulated by the Penal Code or any other law shall be punished with imprisonment and a fine of no less than one thousand dinars, and not more than ten thousand dinars, or one of these two penalties, whoever uses a dangerous animal to raise terror between people.
