The Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and Penalties, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012
Further to Part 5 (Dogs) (in particular, sections 40 to 42) of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (“the Act”), under which district councils are empowered to make dog control orders, these Regulations prescribe for the purposes of section 40 of the Act the offences that may be provided for in any such order (regulation 3(1) and Schedules 1 to 5).