14Effect of Act on byelaws

1

This section applies to any byelaw which has the effect of making any person in charge of a dog guilty of an offence where the dog defecates upon any public open place and that person fails immediately to remove the faeces from that place.

2

In so far as any byelaw to which this section applies would, apart from this section, have effect in relation to any public open place, the byelaw—

a

shall cease to have effect in relation to that place; or

b

where it is made after the coming into force of this Act, shall not have effect in relation to that place.