Please direct any questions or comments about this form to:
Renfrewshire Trading Standards & Licensing Team
Telephone: 0300 300 0380 email: ts.es@renfrewshire.gov.uk
(If applying online you may type your name)
NOTES
1. If any condition, subject to which the licence is granted, is contravened or not complied with, the
person to whom the licence is granted shall be guilty of an offence.
2. Any person convicted of an offence under this Act is liable to a fine; furthermore the court which
convicts any person of an offence under this Act or related legislation may also cancel the licence
and impose a period of disqualification.
3. The expression "the keeping of a pet shop" is, subject to certain provisions, to be construed as
meaning the carrying on at premises (including a private dwelling) of a business of selling animals
as pets and as including references to the keeping of animals with a view to their being sold in the
course of such a business.
4. It shall be an offence for any person to carry on a business of selling animals as pets in any part of
a street or public place or at a stall or barrow in a market.
5. It shall be an offence for any person to sell an animal as a pet to a person whom he has
reasonable cause to believe to be under the age of sixteen (16) years.
6. Any of the Council's officers or any veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner may, if authorised
do so by the Council in writing, enter and inspect at all reasonable times any premises as respects
which a licence has been granted and any animals found thereon or anything therein, for the
purpose of ascertaining whether an offence has been or is being committed under the Act.
CONDITIONS OF LICENCE
1. Animals must at all times be kept in accommodation suitable as respects construction, size,
temperature, lighting, ventilation and cleanliness.
2. Animals must be adequately supplied with suitable food and drink and (as far as necessary) visited
at suitable intervals.
3. Animals, being mammals, must not be sold at too early an age.
4. All reasonable precautions must be taken to prevent the spread among animals of infectious
diseases.
5. Appropriate steps must be taken for the protection of animals in case of fire or other emergency.
6. These conditions are not exhaustive - please refer to www.renfrewshire.gov.uk for full conditions.
FEES
Please visit www.renfrewshire.gov.uk for current fee.
SEND NO PAYMENT WITH YOUR APPLICATION - AN INVOICE WILL BE ISSUED
INSTRUCTIONS
Please return this application to: Or submit by email if completing online:
Renfrewshire Council ts.es@renfrewshire.gov.uk
Trading Standards & Licensing Team
Community Resources
Renfrewshire House
Cotton Street
Paisley
PA1 1BR
