Part 6Dogs

Chapter 2Stray dogs

68Termination of police responsibility for stray dogs

1

Section 3 of the Dogs Act 1906 (c. 32) (seizure of stray dogs by police) shall, subject to subsection (2), cease to have effect.

2

The repeal in subsection (1) does not apply for the purposes of section 2(2) and (3) of the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 (c. 28).

3

In section 150 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) (delivery of stray dogs to police or local authority officer), in subsection (1)—

a

in paragraph (b), omit sub-paragraph (ii) and the preceding “or”;

b

omit the words from “or the police officer” to “as the case may be,”.

4

In the heading to that section, omit “police or”.