{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-control-orders-prescribed-offences-and-penalties-etc-regulations-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-control-orders-prescribed-offences-and-penalties-etc-regulations-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110739590",
  "legislation_title": "The Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and Penalties, etc.) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dog-control-orders-prescribed-offences-and-penalties-etc-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offence",
  "text": "(1) A person in charge of a dog shall be guilty of an offence if, [at any time][during the [times][periods] specified in Schedule 2], on any land to which this Order applies, he does not comply with a direction given him by an authorised officer of the Authority to put and keep the dog on a lead[ of not more than [X feet/inches] in length], unless—\n(a) he has a reasonable excuse for failing to do so; or\n(b) the owner, occupier or other person or authority having control of the land has consented (generally or specifically) to his failing to do so.\n(2) For the purposes of this article—\n(a) a person who habitually has a dog in his possession shall be taken to be in charge of the dog at any time unless at that time some other person is in charge of the dog;\n(b) an authorised officer of the Authority may only give a direction under this Order to put and keep a dog on a lead if such restraint is reasonably necessary to prevent a nuisance or behaviour by the dog likely to cause annoyance or disturbance to any other person [on any land to which this Order applies] or the worrying or disturbance of any animal or bird.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Specify whichever of the options in square brackets is to apply."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "If this is to be specified, insert maximum length of lead."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110739590/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:32.625619+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."
}