Environmental Protection Act 1990

Stray dogs

3 (1) The following provisions of the [1906 c. 32.] Dogs Act 1906 shall be amended as follows.

(2) The amendments made to section 3 by section 39(2) of the [1988 c. 9.] Local Government Act 1988 and section 128(1)(a) of the [1982 c. 45.] Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section 4—

(a) subsection (1) shall be omitted;

(b) in subsection (2), for the words “so taken to a police station” there shall be substituted the words “taken to a police station in pursuance of section 150(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990”;

(c) in subsection (2)(a), for the words from “his name and address” to “other” there shall be substituted the words “this fact and shall furnish his name and address and the police officer shall, having complied with the procedure (if any) prescribed under subsection (5) below, allow the finder to remove the dog”;

(d) in subsection (3), for the words from “fails” to “section” there shall be substituted the words “removes the dog but fails to keep it for at least one month,”; and

(e) after subsection (3) or, as respects Scotland, subsection (4) there shall be inserted as subsection (4) or subsection (5) the following subsection—

“( ) The Secretary of State may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, prescribe the procedure to be followed under subsection (2)(a) above and any instrument containing regulations under this subsection shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.”