Title, commencement and application1

1

The title of this Order is the Controls on Dogs (Non-application to Designated Land) (Wales) Order 2007.

2

This Order comes into force on 15 March 2007.

3

This Order applies in relation to Wales.

Interpretation2

In this Order—

  • “the Act” means the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005;

  • “land” means any land which is open to the air and to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access (with or without payment), and any land which is covered is to be treated as “open to the air” if it is open on at least one side;

  • “road” means any length of highway or of any other road to which the public have access, and includes bridges over which a road passes.

Land to which Chapter 1 of Part 6 of the Act does not apply3

Any land that falls within a description in the first column of the table in the Schedule is designated as land to which Chapter 1 (controls on dogs) of Part 6 (dogs) of the Act does not apply, for the purposes specified in relation to the particular description in the second column of that table.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19982

D. Elis-ThomasThe Presiding Officer of the National Assembly