Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 4: Other provisions Section 66: Disqualification order on conviction for certain offences involving dogs
Section 66 provides for a court to make a disqualification order preventing an offender from owning or keeping a dog or both where the offender is convicted of certain offences involving dogs. Those offences are: section 1 of the Night Poaching Act 1828; section 30 of the Game Act 1831; the new criminal offence of trespass with intent to search for or to pursue hares with dogs etc set out in section 63; and the new criminal offence of being equipped for searching for or pursuing hares with dogs etc set out in section 64. Under subsection (2) the court can make the order for such period as it thinks fit.
	Subsection (3) provides that the order may specify a period during which the offender may not seek to terminate it.
	Subsection (4) provides that the operation of the order can be suspended if needed to enable alternative arrangements to be made in relation to the dog.
	Subsection (5) requires that the court gives reasons for making a disqualification order in open court and causes those reasons to be registered in the register of its proceedings.
	Subsection (6) makes it an offence to breach a disqualification order.
	Subsection (7) sets the maximum penalty for a breach of a disqualification order as a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (currently £1,000).
	Subsection (8) provides that a recovery order can be made whether or not the court also deals with the offender in another way.