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LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to make further provision for the protection of livestock
from dogs and with respect to dangerous dogs; and for purposes
connected therewith.
[11th June 1968]
Worrying of livestock.

LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT
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1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, if a dog worries
livestock on any land (in this section referred to as "the relevant
land"), the owner of the dog and, if it is in the charge of a
person other than its owner, that person also, shall be guilty of
an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or, in the case of a second
or subsequent conviction in respect of the same dog, to a fine not
exceeding fifty pounds.

(2) Except where a person causes a dog to attack livestock, he
shall not be guilty of an offence under this section by reason of
anything done by the dog, if at the material time the livestock
are trespassing on the relevant land and the dog is owned by, or
in the charge of, the occupier of that land or a person authorised
by him to remove the livestock from that land.

(3) The owner of a dog shall not be convicted of an offence under
this section in respect of the worrying of livestock by the dog if
he proves that at the time when the dog worried the livestock it
was in the charge of some other person whom he reasonably believed
to be a fit and proper person to be in charge of the dog.

(4) Proceedings for an offence under this section shall not be
brought except

(a)by or with the consent of a district inspector of the Royal
Ulster Constabulary acting for the area in which the relevant land
is situated;

(b)by the occupier of the relevant land;

(c)by the owner of any of the livestock in question.

(5) In this section

"livestock" and "worrying livestock" have the meanings assigned to
them by section 1(4) of the Dogs Act (Northern Ireland) 1960.

S.2 adds s.2(2)(3) to 1871 c.56. S.3 (rep. in pt. by 1976 NI13
art.14 sch.) substitutes s.1(4)(7) of 1906 c.32. S.4 amends s.1 of
1960 c.6 (NI)

LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT
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Power to make regulations with respect to dogs.

5.(1) With a view to the protection of livestock from dogs the
Ministry of Agriculture may make orders for all or any of the
following purposes:

(a)for prescribing and regulating the muzzling of dogs, and the
keeping of dogs under control;

(b)for prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs of a collar
with the name and address of the owner inscribed on the collar or
on a plate or badge attached thereto;

(c)for preventing dogs, or any kind of dogs, from straying during
all or any of the hours between sunset and sunrise;

(d)for providing that any dog in respect of which an offence is
being committed against provisions made under either of the two last
foregoing paragraphs may be seized and treated as a stray dog under
the enactments relating to dogs;

(e)for prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention and disposal
(including destruction) of stray dogs, and of dogs not muzzled, and
of dogs not being kept under control, and the recovery from the
owners of dogs of the expenses incurred in respect of their
detention.

(2) A person contravening any provision of an order made under this
section shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(3) An order made under this section shall be subject to negative
resolution.

Subs.(4) repeals s.27 of 1958 c.13 (NI)

LIVESTOCK (PROTECTION FROM DOGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT
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Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Livestock (Protection from Dogs)
Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.