Dogs Act (with its variations) is a stock

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used in the

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for legislation relating to dogs.

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*The Dogs Act 1871 *The Dogs Act 1906 (6 Edw 7 c 32) *The Dogs (Amendment) Act 1928 (18 & 19 Geo 5 c 21) *The Dogs Amendment Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo 6 c 21) *The

Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 ( 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 28) is a British Act devised to protect livestock from dogs. The Act outlines punishment of dog owners whose dogs worry livestock on agricultural land. Protected livestock is defined ...

(1 & 2 Eliz 2 c 28) *The

Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 The Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Act was to create a criminal offence if a dog defecates at any time on designated land and a person who is in charge of the dog at that ti ...

*The Dangerous Dogs Act 1989 *The

Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting or restricting certain types of dogs and codifying the criminal offence of allowing a dog of any breed to be dangerously out of control. After eleven horr ...

*The Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Act 1997 *The Guard Dogs Act 1975 *The Breeding of Dogs Act 1973 *The Breeding of Dogs Act 1991 *The Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999 *The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 which covers criminal penalties related to acts with dogs Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly *The Dogs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 Acts of the Scottish Parliament *The

Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003 The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. Do ...

*The Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010

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