SPICe Briefing Control of Dogs (Scotland) Bill

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The Control of Dogs (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 22 June 2009 by Christine Grahame MSP. The Bill seeks to modernise the law on control of dogs. The Bill seeks to:

• Introduce a new regime of ‘dog control notices’ which will enable local authorities to impose measures on the owner or person in charge (“the proper person”) of a dog where that person has failed to keep the dog under control.
• Provides Scottish Ministers with a power to establish a national database of dog control notices.
• Enables local authorities to apply to a court to have a dog destroyed where it considers a dog is out of control and dangerous.
• Extend the liability of a person where a dog is dangerously out of control to all places.
This briefing considers the provisions of the Bill in the context of the consultation which was conducted on a set of draft proposals and responses to the current version of the Bill.

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