LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 1



1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, if a dog worries livestock on
any land (in this section referred to as "the relevant land"), the owner of
the dog and, if it is in the charge of a person other than its owner, that
person also, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or, in the case of a
second or subsequent conviction in respect of the same dog, to a fine not
exceeding fifty pounds.

(2) Except where a person causes a dog to attack livestock, he shall not be
guilty of an offence under this section by reason of anything done by the dog,
if at the material time the livestock are trespassing on the relevant land and
the dog is owned by, or in the charge of, the occupier of that land or a
person authorised by him to remove the livestock from that land.

(3) The owner of a dog shall not be convicted of an offence under this section
in respect of the worrying of livestock by the dog if he proves that at the
time when the dog worried the livestock it was in the charge of some other
person whom he reasonably believed to be a fit and proper person to be in
charge of the dog.

(4) Proceedings for an offence under this section shall not be brought except

(a)by or with the consent of a district inspector of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary acting for the area in which the relevant land is situated;

(b)by the occupier of the relevant land;

(c)by the owner of any of the livestock in question.

(5) In this section

"livestock" and "worrying livestock" have the meanings assigned to them by
section 1(4) of the Dogs Act (Northern Ireland) 1960.

S.2 adds s.2(2)(3) to 1871 c.56. S.3 (rep. in pt. by 1976 NI13 art.14 sch.)
substitutes s.1(4)(7) of 1906 c.32. S.4 amends s.1 of 1960 c.6 (NI)

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LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 1