{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-fouling-of-land-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-fouling-of-land-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2762",
  "legislation_title": "The Dogs (Fouling of Land) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-fouling-of-land-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Procedure for orders",
  "text": "(1) Before making an order, a local authority shall—\n(a) publish notice of their proposal to do so in a local newspaper circulating in the area in which the land affected by the order is situated; and\n(b) consider the representations (if any) made within the period specified in the notice.\n(2) The notice referred to in paragraph (1) above shall—\n(a) identify the land affected by the order;\n(b) state the effect of the order;\n(c) where the order will refer to a map, state the address of a place in the local authority’s area where that map may be inspected by any person free of charge at all reasonable hours during the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (d) below; and\n(d) state that representations may be made in writing within such period, being not less than 28 days after the publication of the notice, as may be specified in the notice, and the address to which representations may be sent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2762/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:57.084664+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."
}