Horse hiring (riding schools) licence

Activities that require a licence

Businesses which hire out horses for riding or for riding lessons. This includes:

• riding schools and those that hire out horses

• trekking

• loan horses

• pony parties (but only where the ponies are ridden)

• hunter hirelings

• polo/polocrosse instruction

• pony hire

• pony and donkey rides

Activities that do not require a licence

For example:

• businesses that run pony parties where none of the ponies are ever ridden – these should be licensed as animal exhibits

• activities that are carried out solely for military or police purposes (for example riding stables that are used exclusively for these purposes)

• riding stables that are used exclusively for instructing veterinary students at university for the purpose of their course

• individuals who occasionally lend a horse, even if a small fee is charged, where there is no profit made and no intent to make a profit