{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-act-1991/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-act-1991/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/65",
  "legislation_title": "Dangerous Dogs Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-act-1991",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Dogs owned by young persons.",
  "text": "Where a dog is owned by a person who is less than sixteen years old any reference to its owner in section 1(2)(d) or (e) or 3 above shall include a reference to the head of the household, if any, of which that person is a member or, in Scotland, to the person who has his actual care and control.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 wholly in force at 12.8.1991, see s. 10(4) and S.I. 1991/1742, art. 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/65/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:38.886731+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."
}