Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the form of the fixed penalty notice which may be given by an officer of a district council to the keeper of a dog under the procedure in Part IV of the Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (“the Order”) whereby certain offences may be punished without prosecution.

The notice offers the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction of the offence specified in the notice by the payment of a fixed penalty to the district council that issued the notice. Such offence may relate to—

(a)

keeping a dog without a valid licence (Article 17(1) of the Order);

(b)

a dog straying (Article 22(1) of the Order);

(c)

control on certain roads and on land (Article 25(3) of Order);

(d)

failure to display identification of keeper on a dog’s collar or on a plate or badge attached to it (Regulation 6(1) of the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and Article 31(2) of the Order);

(e)

failure to attach licence information to a dog’s collar (Regulation 7 of the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and Article 31(2) of the Order);

(f)

greyhounds not controlled and muzzled in a public place (Section 1 of the Control of Greyhounds, etc, Act (Northern Ireland) 1950);

(g)

more than two greyhounds being exercised or led by one person in a public place (Section 2 of the Control of Greyhounds, etc, Act (Northern Ireland) 1950);

(h)

failure to comply with control conditions of a dog licence;

(i)

failure to notify transfer of a dog subject to control conditions.