{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1983/764",
  "legislation_title": "The Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-northern-ireland-order-1983",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Evidence of registers",
  "text": "In any proceedings under this Order a document purporting to be a copy of an entry in a register of licences or guard dog kennels ..., as the case may require, and purporting to be certified as such by a person authorised by the district council shall be evidence of the matters recorded in the entry.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 16 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Welfare of Animals (Dog Breeding Establishments and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/43), regs. 1, 21(11)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 16 omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The Welfare of Animals (Dog Breeding Establishments and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/43), regs. 1, 21(11)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/764/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:22.566095+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."
}