Article 8 Liability for injury by dogs to livestock

Where a dog causes damage byF1 worrying livestock, any person who is a keeper of the dog is liable for the damage.

Where the amount of damage under this Article does not exceed £100 it shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt underF2 Article 62 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

A person is not liable under this Article, if the livestock was worried on land onto which it had strayed and either the dog belonged to the occupier or its presence on the land was authorised by the occupier, unless the person caused the dog to worry the livestock.

In this Article “worrying livestock” means—