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The Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and Penalties, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
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Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and Penalties, etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and come into operation on 1st April 2012.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations “the Act” means the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011.
Prescribed offences and penalties
3.—(1) For the purposes of section 40(4) of the Act, the offences capable of being provided for in a dog control order are those set out in paragraph 1 of each of Schedules 1 to 5.
(2) The penalty to be provided in relation to any offence in a dog control order is, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3) A dog control order may specify the times at which, or the periods during which, an offence is to apply.
Specified wording to be used in, and the form of, a dog control order
4. A district council which makes a dog control order shall—
(a)in providing for any offence, use the wording specified in the Schedule applying to that offence (under the heading “offence”); and
(b)in all other respects make the order in the form set out in that Schedule, or in a form substantially to the like effect.
Amendment of a dog control order
5. A district council which amends a dog control order it has made shall do so in accordance with Schedule 6.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
Wesley Shannon
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
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