ANIMALS ACT 1985 - LONG TITLE An Act to amend the law relating to liability for damage done by animals and the law relating to the impounding of animals, and to provide for connected matters. [12th June, 1985] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: - SECT 1 Interpretation. 1.—(1) In this Act— "the Act of 1851" means the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851; "the Act of 1935" means the Pounds (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935; "animal", except in section 2, means a bovine animal, horse, ass or other equine animal, sheep or goat; "damage" includes the death of, or injury to, any person (including any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition) and injury to or total or partial destruction of property; "local authority" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Act of 1935; "the Minister" means the Minister for Justice; "public road" means a road the responsib...