Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003

14Effect of Act on byelaws

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(1)This section applies to any byelaw which has the effect of making any person in charge of a dog guilty of an offence where the dog defecates upon any public open place and that person fails immediately to remove the faeces from that place.

(2)In so far as any byelaw to which this section applies would, apart from this section, have effect in relation to any public open place, the byelaw—

(a)shall cease to have effect in relation to that place; or

(b)where it is made after the coming into force of this Act, shall not have effect in relation to that place.