Part VI.— Dogs.
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Sect. 2. For prescribing and regulating the muzzling of dogs and the By Statute. dogs under control {I) (2) For prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention, and disposal (including slaughter) of stray dogs, and of dogs not muzzled, and of dogs not kept under control, and the recovery from the owners of dogs of the expenses incurred in respect of (1)
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For prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs, while in a highway or in a place of public resort, of a collar with the name and address of the owner inscribed on the collar or on a plate or badge attached thereto (n) (3)
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prevention of worrying of cattle, for preventing dogs or any class of dogs from straying during all or any of the hours between sunset and sunrise (o). (4)
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868. The effect of the Orders made under these powers, so far as they are now in force, is as follows A local authority ( may make regulations for prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs, while in a highway or place of public resort (q), of a collar with the name and address of the owner Such inscribed on it, or on a plate or badge attached thereto. regulations are not to apply to any pack of hounds (r), or to any dog while being used for sporting purposes, or for the capture or destruction of vermin, or for the driving or tending of cattle or Any local authority making such regulations must forthsheep. with send two copies thereof to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, who may disallow any regulation which they are satisfied on inquiry is objectionable (s). If a dog is found in a highway or place of public resort without the prescribed collar, it may be seized and treated as a stray dog(0, and the owner of the dog, and the person for the time being in charge thereof, and the person allowing it to be in the highway or in the place of public resort in contravention of the regulations, is, each in respect of his own acts and defaults, guilty of an offence under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or, if the offence
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Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Yict. c. 57), s. 22 (xxx.). (m) Ibid., s. 22 (xxxi.). (71) Dogs Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 32), s. 2 (1) (a). (o) Ibid., s. 2 (1) (b). Eor the meaning of " sunset" and " sunrise," see title Time. Orders made in respect of the matters comprised in headings (3) and (4) may provide that an offending dog may be seized and treated as a stray dog, as to which see p. 398, ante. No order under heading (4) has yet been issued. (p) The local authorities are those intrusted with the administration of the Diseases of Animals Acts, see p. 429, post. " highway " and " place of public resort" are defined to (q) The expressions include any place to which the public have access whether on payment or otherwise. (r) These words do not exempt a hound puppy out at walk, unless expressly so stated in the regulations. (s) Dogs Order, 1906, s. 1 the provisions of the Order are to be executed and enforced by the local authority (s. 5). Up to March, 1907, over one hundred local authorities had made regulations "under the order as to the wearing of collars by dogs. {t) Ibid., s. 2. And see p. 398, ante, (?)
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