Dangerous Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
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1991No. 2292 (N.I. 21)
NORTHERN IRELAND
The Dangerous Dogs
(Northern Ireland) Order 1991
16thOctober1991
24thOctober1991
31stOctober1991
ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER
Article
1. Title and commencement.
2. Interpretation.
3. Dangerous dogs.
4. Attacks by dogs.
5. Destruction of dangerous dogs.
6. Disqualification orders.
7. Minor amendments to Dogs Order.
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At the Court of Saint James, the 16th day of October 1991
Present,
The Counsellors of State in Council
Whereas Her Majesty in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 25th day of September 1991 to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty's absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty's behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty's approval for anything for which Her Majesty's approval in Council is required:
And Whereas this Order is made only for purposes corresponding to the purposes of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 ( a) :
Now, therefore, His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974 ( b), (as modified by section 8 of the said Act of 1991) and all other powers enabling Her Majesty, and by and with the advice of Her
(a) 1991 c. 65
(b) 1974 c. 28
Majesty's Privy Council, do on Her Majesty's behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Dangerous Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and shall come into operation on 31st October 1991.
Interpretation
2.-(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 ( a) shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(2) In this Order "the Dogs Order" means the Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 ( b) .
Dangerous dogs
3. After Article 25 of the Dogs Order there shall be inserted the following Articles-
"Dogs bred for fighting
25A.-(1) This Article applies to-
(a) any dog of the type known as the pit bull terrier;
(b) any dog of the type known as the Japanese tosa; and
(c) any dog of any type designated for the purposes of this Article by an order of the Department, being a type appearing to the Department to be bred for fighting or to have the characteristics of a type bred for that purpose.
(2) No person shall-
(a) breed, or breed from, a dog to which this Article applies;
(b) sell or exchange such a dog or offer, advertise or expose such a dog for sale or exchange;
(c) make or offer to make a gift of such a dog or advertise or expose such a dog as a gift;
(d) cause or permit such a dog of which he is the keeper or of which he is for the time being in charge to be in a public place unless the dog is muzzled and kept on a lead; or
(e) abandon such a dog of which he is the keeper or, being the keeper or for the time being in charge of such a dog, permit it to stray.
(3) After 30th November 1991 no person shall have any dog to which this Article applies in his possession or custody except-
(a) in pursuance of a power of seizure conferred by this Order; or
(b) in accordance with an order for its destruction made under this Order;
(a) 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)
(b) 1983 NI 8
but the Department shall by order make a scheme for the payment to the keepers of such dogs who arrange for them to be destroyed before that date of sums specified in or determined under the scheme in respect of those dogs and the cost of their destruction.
(4) Paragraph (2)(b) and (c) shall not make unlawful anything done with a view to the dog in question being removed from the United Kingdom before 30th November 1991.
(5) The Department may by order provide that the prohibition in paragraph (3) shall not apply in such cases and subject to compliance with such conditions as are specified in the order and any such provision may take the form of a scheme of exemption containing such arrangements (including provision for the payment of charges or fees) as the Department thinks appropriate.
(6) A scheme under paragraph (3) or (5) may provide for specified functions under the scheme to be discharged by such persons or bodies as the Department thinks appropriate.
(7) Any person...
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