Dangerous Dogs Act 1989
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2 Short title, consequential amendment and repeals, commencement and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Dangerous Dogs Act 1989. (2) In section 5 of the Dogs Act 1871 for the definition of “court of summary jurisdiction” there shall be substituted— “court of summary jurisdiction” as regards Scotland has the same meaning as in section 462 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975. (3) The following provisions (which are superseded by this Act or otherwise spent) are hereby repealed— (a) in the Dogs Act 1871, in section 2, the words from “and any person failing to comply” onwards, section 4 and in section 6 the words “in the eighteenth section of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867, or” ; (b) the Dogs (Amendment) Act 1938. (4) This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed and does not affect the said Acts of 1871 and 1938 in relation to any complaint made before the coming into force of this Act. (5) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
2 Short title, consequential amendment and repeals, commencement and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Dangerous Dogs Act 1989. (2) In section 5 of the Dogs Act 1871 for the definition of “court of summary jurisdiction” there shall be substituted— “court of summary jurisdiction” as regards Scotland has the same meaning as in section 462 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975. (3) The following provisions (which are superseded by this Act or otherwise spent) are hereby repealed— (a) in the Dogs Act 1871, in section 2, the words from “and any person failing to comply” onwards, section 4 and in section 6 the words “in the eighteenth section of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867, or” ; (b) the Dogs (Amendment) Act 1938. (4) This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed and does not affect the said Acts of 1871 and 1938 in relation to any complaint made before the coming into force of this Act. (5) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
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