{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-northern-ireland-2024/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-northern-ireland-2024/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2024/155",
  "legislation_title": "The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“appointed day” means 31st December 2024;\n“certificate of exemption” means a certificate issued under Article 6, Article 11(5) or Article 12 by a district council;\n“dog” means a dog of the type known as the XL Bully;\n“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n“the Order” means The Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983;\n“rehoming organisation” means an organisation whose purposes on 5th July 2024 include—\n(i) the provision of care to dogs that have been abandoned or relinquished by their previous owners; and\n(ii) the rehoming of dogs taken into the organisation’s care.\n“relevant time” for applications for exemption is either by 31st December 2024 or where the keeper named on the certificate of exemption has died, three months from the date of death;\n“veterinary surgeon” means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or the supplementary veterinary register kept under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 9.8.2024, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1966 c. 36 section 2(2) was amended by paragraph 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2003/2919, paragraph 2(a) and (b) of the Schedule to S.I. 2008/1824 and regulation 2(3) of S.I. 2019/454."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/155/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:04.541965+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."
}