{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-protection-of-livestock-amendment-act-2025/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogs-protection-of-livestock-amendment-act-2025/section-1.json",
  "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": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Livestock worrying: scope and consequences of offence",
  "text": "The Schedule contains amendments to the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 that—\n(a) bring incidents on roads and paths within the scope of the offence in section 1 of that Act;\n(b) bring camelids within the definition of “livestock” that applies for the purposes of that offence;\n(c) exempt a dog owner from liability for that offence where the dog is in the charge of another person without the owner’s consent;\n(d) increase the penalty that may be imposed where a person is convicted of that offence;\n(e) allow for a court to order an offender to pay expenses associated with seizing and detaining a dog;\n(f) update the terminology used in that Act so that attacking livestock is dealt with separately from worrying livestock.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 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/section/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."
}