Valid from 06/04/2008
68Termination of police responsibility for stray dogsE+W
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(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”.