18. Breach of a licence condition is to be treated as a relevant offence for the purposes of section 23 of the Act (entry and search under warrant in connection with offences).
19. The following sections of the Act apply in relation to a conviction for an offence under regulation 14 (and are to be read as if they included a reference to a person who had been convicted of an offence under that regulation)—
(a)section 33 (deprivation);
(b)section 34 (disqualification);
(c)section 37 (destruction in the interests of the animal); and
(d)section 42 (orders with respect to licences).
20. A local authority must, in the exercise of its functions under these Regulations, have regard to any guidance given by the Secretary of State.
21.—(1) The Secretary of State may require a local authority to provide any of the following information to the Secretary of State—
(a)the number of primate licences in force in the authority’s area;
(b)the number of primates by species in the authority’s area kept under primate licences;
(c)the level of fees charged by the authority under these Regulations;
(d)any other information relating to the discharge of the authority’s functions under these Regulations that the Secretary of State may reasonably require.
(2) The Secretary of State may require information to be provided under paragraph (1) within such period as the Secretary of State may reasonably require, which must be at least a period of one month from the date on which the information was requested.