{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dog-fouling-fixed-penalties-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dog-fouling-fixed-penalties-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2763",
  "legislation_title": "The Dog Fouling (Fixed Penalties) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dog-fouling-fixed-penalties-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 30th October 1996\nLaid before Parliament 8th November 1996\nComing into force 1st December 1996\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 88(5) and (7) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, as applied by section 4(2) of the Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (16.12.2005) by The Litter (Fixed Penalty Notices) Order 1991 and the Dog Fouling (Fixed Penalties) Order 1996 (Revocation) (England) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3223), arts. 1(b), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2763/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:55.791944+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."
}