SupplementaryE+W
63Overlapping powersE+W
(1)Where a primary authority makes a dog control order providing for an offence relating to a matter specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 55(3) as respects any land—
(a)a secondary authority may not make a dog control order providing for any offence which relates to the matter specified in that paragraph as respects that land;
(b)any dog control order previously made by a secondary authority providing for any offence which relates to the matter specified in that paragraph shall, to the extent that it so provides, cease to have effect.
(2)Where the area of an authority designated as a secondary authority under section 58(3) is to any extent the same as that of a parish or community council, subsection (1) applies in relation to orders made by the designated authority and that council as if the council were a primary authority.
Commencement Information
I1S. 63 in force at 6.4.2006 for E. by S.I. 2006/795, art. 2(3), Sch. 2
64ByelawsE+W
(1)Where, apart from this subsection, a primary or secondary authority has at any time power to make a byelaw in relation to any matter specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 55(3) as respects any land, it may not make such a byelaw if at that time it has power under this Chapter to make a dog control order as respects that land in relation to the matter specified in that paragraph.
(2)Subsection (1) does not affect any byelaw which the authority had power to make at the time it was made.
(3)Where a dog control order is made in relation to any matter specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 55(3) as respects any land, any byelaw previously made by a primary or secondary authority which has the effect of making a person guilty of any offence in relation to the matter specified in that paragraph as respects that land shall cease to have that effect.
(4)Where any act or omission would, apart from this subsection, constitute an offence under a dog control order and any byelaw, the act or omission shall not constitute an offence under the byelaw.
Commencement Information
I2S. 64 in force at 6.4.2006 for E. by S.I. 2006/795, art. 2(3), Sch. 2
65Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996E+W
The Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 (c. 20) shall cease to have effect.
Commencement Information
I3S. 65 in force at 6.4.2006 for E. by S.I. 2006/795, art. 2(3), Sch. 2