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LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 5

Power to make regulations with respect to dogs.

5.(1) With a view to the protection of livestock from dogs the Ministry of
Agriculture may make orders for all or any of the following purposes:

(a)for prescribing and regulating the muzzling of dogs, and the keeping of
dogs under control;

(b)for prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs of a collar with the
name and address of the owner inscribed on the collar or on a plate or badge
attached thereto;

(c)for preventing dogs, or any kind of dogs, from straying during all or any
of the hours between sunset and sunrise;

(d)for providing that any dog in respect of which an offence is being
committed against provisions made under either of the two last foregoing
paragraphs may be seized and treated as a stray dog under the enactments
relating to dogs;

(e)for prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention and disposal
(including destruction) of stray dogs, and of dogs not muzzled, and of dogs
not being kept under control, and the recovery from the owners of dogs of the
expenses incurred in respect of their detention.

(2) A person contravening any provision of an order made under this section
shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding twenty pounds.

(3) An order made under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.

Subs.(4) repeals s.27 of 1958 c.13 (NI)

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