{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Reporting to the Police",
  "text": "The owner of a dog to which section 1 of the Act applies who wishes to claim compensation in accordance with Part II of this Order and a person who wishes such a dog to be exempt from the provisions of section 1(3) of the Act shall, in the case of a dog to which article 4 applies, before 12th October 1991, and in the case of a dog to which article 5 applies, before the appointed day, report to a police station and provide the police with such information concerning the dog as may reasonably be required by the Secretary of State for the purpose of establishing–\n(a) that the dog is one to which section 1 of the Act applies; and\n(b) the address at which the dog is kept; and\n(c) the name, age and gender of the dog.",
  "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. 6 in force at 12.8.1991, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1744/article/6",
    "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."
}