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				</ukm:Metadata><Contents><ContentsTitle>Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Act 1997</ContentsTitle><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/1" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/1" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>1</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Destruction orders.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/2" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/2" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>2</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Contingent destruction orders.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/3" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/3" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>3</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Destruction orders otherwise than on a conviction.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/4" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/4" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>4</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Extended application of 1991 Order.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/5" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/5" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>5</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Transitional provisions.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/6" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/section/6" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>6</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Short title, commencement and extent.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem></Contents><Primary><PrimaryPrelims DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/53/introduction" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/introduction" RestrictStartDate="1997-06-08"><Title>Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Act 1997</Title><Number>1997 c. 53</Number><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991; and for connected purposes.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText>[21st March 1997]</DateText></DateOfEnactment><PrimaryPreamble><EnactingText><Para><Text><CommentaryRef Ref="c863752"/>Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—</Text></Para></EnactingText></PrimaryPreamble></PrimaryPrelims></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c863752" Type="I"><Para><Text>Act wholly in force; Act not in force at Royal Assent see <CitationSubRef id="c00001" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/53/section/6/3" SectionRef="section-6-3">s.6(3)</CitationSubRef>; Act in force (8.6.1997) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/1151" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="1151">S.I. 1997/1151</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00003" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/1151/article/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00002" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>.</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>