DOG AND CAT MANAGEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 50
DOG AND CAT MANAGEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 50
50—Destruction and control orders
(1) A council or the
Board may, in accordance with this Division, make an order of any of the
following classes in relation to a specified dog:
(a) a
Destruction Order;
(b) a
Control (Dangerous Dog) Order;
(c) a
Control (Menacing Dog) Order;
(d) a
Control (Nuisance Dog) Order;
(e) a
Control (Barking Dog) Order.
(2) A Destruction
Order requires—
(a) the
dog to be destroyed within the period specified in the order (but not less
than one month after the date the order takes effect); and
(b) the
dog, until destroyed, to be kept or detained at a place specified in the order
(or at some other place subsequently approved by the council or the Board (as
the case requires)).
(3) A Control
(Dangerous Dog) Order requires—
(a) if
the dog has not been desexed—the dog to be desexed within the period
specified in the order; and
(b) if
the dog has not been microchipped—the dog to be microchipped within the
period specified in the order; and
(c) the
dog, while on premises of which the person who is responsible for the control
of the dog is the occupier, to be kept indoors or for the premises to be
fenced so as to prevent the dog escaping from the premises; and
(d) the
dog, at all times, to wear a collar that complies with the requirements of the
Board (except while the dog is suffering from injury, disease or sickness to
the extent that the wearing of a collar would be injurious to the health of
the dog); and
(e) the
dog, except while confined to premises of which the person who is responsible
for the control of the dog is the occupier—
(i)
to have a muzzle securely fixed on its mouth capable of
preventing it from biting any person or animal; and
(ii)
to be under the effective control of a person by means of
physical restraint; and
(f)
warning signs (complying with the requirements of the Board) to be prominently
displayed at all entrances to premises where the dog is usually kept warning
people that a dangerous dog is kept on the premises; and
(g) the
dog or the person or both to undertake such approved training courses as may
be specified in the order; and
(h) all
reasonable steps to be taken to prevent the dog repeating the behaviour that
gave rise to the order.
(4) A Control
(Menacing Dog) Order requires—
(a) if
the dog has not been microchipped—the dog to be microchipped within the
period specified in the order; and
(b) the
dog, while on premises of which the person who is responsible for the control
of the dog is the occupier, to be kept indoors or for the premises to be
fenced so as to prevent the dog escaping from the premises; and
(c) the
dog, at all times, to wear a collar that complies with the requirements of the
Board (except while the dog is suffering from injury, disease or sickness to
the extent that the wearing of a collar would be injurious to the health of
the dog); and
(d) the
dog, except while confined to premises of which the person who is responsible
for the control of the dog is the occupier—
(i)
to have a muzzle securely fixed on its mouth capable of
preventing it from biting any person or animal; and
(ii)
to be under the effective control of a person by means of
physical restraint; and
(da) the
dog or the person or both to undertake such approved training courses as may
be specified in the order; and
(e) all
reasonable steps to be taken to prevent the dog repeating the behaviour that
gave rise to the order.
(5) A Control
(Nuisance Dog) Order requires—
(a) the
dog, while on premises of which the person who is responsible for the control
of the dog is the occupier, to be kept indoors or for the premises to be
fenced so as to prevent the dog escaping from the premises; and
(b) the
dog, except while confined to premises of which the person who is responsible
for the control of the dog is the occupier, to be under the effective control
of a person by means of physical restraint; and
(c) all
reasonable steps to be taken to prevent the dog repeating the behaviour that
gave rise to the order; and
(d) the
dog or the person or both to undertake such approved training courses as may
be specified in the order.
(6) A Control (Barking
Dog) Order requires—
(a) all
reasonable steps to be taken to prevent the dog repeating the behaviour that
gave rise to the order; and
(b) the
dog or the person or both to undertake such approved training courses as may
be specified in the order.
(7) In this
section—
"approved training course" means a training course approved for the time being
by the Board for the purposes of this section.