{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1040",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duty to take care to prevent damage from animals straying onto the public road",
  "text": "(1) So much of the rules of the common law relating to liability for negligence as excludes or restricts the duty which a person might owe to others to take such care as is reasonable to see that damage is not caused by animals straying onto a public road is hereby abolished.\n(2) Where damage is caused by animals straying from unfenced land onto a public road a person who placed them on the land shall not be regarded as having committed a breach of the duty to take care by reason only of placing them there if—\n(a) the land is situated in an area where fencing is not customary; and\n(b) he had a right to place the animals on that land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1040/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:50.294273+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}