{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-protection-of-livestock-amendment-act-2025/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/32",
  "legislation_title": "Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-protection-of-livestock-amendment-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 1 of the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 (offence) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) (creation of offence)—\n(a) before “worries” insert “attacks or”;\n(b) after “land” insert “or on a road or path”.\n(3) In subsection (2) (meaning of “worrying livestock”), omit paragraph (a).\n(4) In subsection (3) (livestock trespassing), after “a dog” insert “on any agricultural land”.\n(5) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) A person is not guilty of an offence under this Act by reason of anything done by a dog on a road or path if at the material time the livestock are on the road or path as a result of straying from where they are kept, unless the person causes the dog to attack the livestock.”\n(6) In subsection (4) (dog in charge of someone other than owner)—\n(a) before “worrying” insert “attacking or”;\n(b) for “he proves” substitute “the owner proves”;\n(c) before “worried” insert “attacked or”;\n(d) for the words from “, whom” to the end substitute\n“and that—\n(a) the owner reasonably believed that other person to be a fit and proper person to be in charge of the dog, or\n(b) the owner did not consent to the dog’s being in the charge of that other person.”\n(7) For subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(7) Where—\n(a) a person is convicted of an offence under this section which was committed on or after this subsection comes into force, and\n(b) the dog in respect of which the offence was committed was seized and detained in connection with the offence in accordance with section 2(8) and (9) (dogs posing continuing threat),\nthe court may order the person to pay whatever sum the court determines to be the reasonable expenses incurred by reason of the dog’s seizure and detention.\n(8) A court may make an order under subsection (7) whether or not it deals with the person in any other way for the offence.\n(9) A sum required to be paid by an order under subsection (7) is treated for the purposes of enforcement as if it were compensation payable under a compensation order (as defined in section 133 of the Sentencing Code).”\n(8) For the heading substitute “Offence where dog attacks or worries livestock”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 in force at 18.3.2026, see s. 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/32/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:45:38.219088+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."
}