Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Controls on Dogs (Non-application to Designated Land) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 and comes into operation on 1st April 2012.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“the Act” means the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011;
“land” means any land which is open to the air and to which the public is entitled or permitted to have access (with or without payment), and any land which is covered is to be treated as “open to the air” if it is open on at least one side;
“road” means any street, carriageway, highway or roadway to which the public has access (with or without payment) and includes any part of such a road and any bridge or tunnel over or through which such a road passes.
Land to which Part 5 of the Act does not apply
3. Any land that falls within a description in the first column of the table in the Schedule is designated as land to which Part 5 of the Act (Dogs) does not apply for the purposes specified, in relation to the particular description, in the second column of that table.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 7th February 2012.
Wesley Shannon
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment