"Circus animals may be regulated"

Fresh from the most successful decade of regulating banks since time began, come this, from The Metro:

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said: "The Animal Welfare Act makes it an offence for an owner or keeper to fail to provide for their animal's welfare - this applies to circuses as to anyone else. In addition it is also an offence, under the Animal Welfare Act, to cause an animal any unnecessary suffering."

There's a rent-a-quote from the RSPCA in there, but it's difficult to tell whether the RSPCA is a fakecharity, as it is divided into 245 separate branches, each of which reports separately. The Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Branch seem to be funded by private donations.