{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-30F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-30F.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/30F",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "30F",
  "heading": "Contravention of control condition",
  "text": "(1) If any control condition of a dog licence is contravened, the keeper of the dog is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this Article to show that he had taken all reasonable steps to prevent contravention of the control condition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 30A-30F and preceding cross-heading inserted (3.10.2011) by Dogs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 9), ss. 8, 18(1); S.R. 2011/332, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/764/article/30F",
    "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."
}