{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1744",
  "legislation_title": "The Dangerous Dogs Compensation and Exemption Schemes Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The prohibition contained in subsection (3) of section 1 of the Act (no person to have in his possession or custody after the appointed day a dog to which that section applies) shall not apply to a dog born before the appointed day in respect of which the conditions specified in article 4, or as the case may be, article 5 are complied with.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.) (3.3.2015) by The Dangerous Dogs Exemption Schemes (England and Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/138), art. 1(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 12.8.1991, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (Commencement and Appointed Day) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1742) 30th November 1991 is the day after which possession of a dog to which section 1 of the Act applies becomes an offence."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1744/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:11.349656+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."
}