Badgers (Further Protection) Act 1991
{An Act to confer additional powers on a court where a dog has
been used in or was present at the commission of certain offences under
the Badgers Act 1973.}
[25th July 1991]
{BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:-
Section 1
Powers of court where dog used in or present at commission of
offence.
(1) Where a dog has been used in or was present at the commission
of an offence under section 1(1) or 2 of the Badgers Act 1973 (taking,
injuring or killing badgers and offences of cruelty) the court, on
convicting the offender, may, in addition to or in substitution for any
other punishment, make either or both of the following orders-
- (a) an order for the destruction or other disposal of the dog;
- (b) an order disqualifying the offender, for such period as it
thinks fit, for having custody of a dog.
(2) Where the court makes an order under subsection (1)(a) above, it
may-
- (a) appoint a person to undertake the destruction or other
disposal of the dog and require any person having custody of the dog
to deliver it up for that purpose; and
- (b) order the offender to pay such sum as the court may determine
to be the reasonable expenses of destroying or otherwise disposing
of the dog and of keeping it pending its destruction or disposal.
(3) Where an order under subsection (1)(a) above is made in relation to
a dog owned by a person other than the offender, the owner of the dog
may appeal to the Crown Court against the order.
(4) A dog shall not be destroyed pursuant to an order under
subsection (1)(a) above-
- (a) until the end of the period within which notice of appeal to
the Crown Court against the order can be given; and
- (b) if notice of appeal is given within that period, until the
appeal is determined or withdrawn,
unless the owner of the dog gives notice to the court which made the
order that he does not intend to appeal against it.
(5) A person who is disqualified for having custody of a dog by
virtue of an order made under subsection (1)(b) above may, at any time
after the end of the period of one year beginning with the date of the
order, apply to the court that made it (or any magistrates' court acting
for the same petty sessions area as that court) for a direction
terminating the disqualification.
(6) On an application under subsection (5) above the court may-
- (a) having regard to the applicant's character, his conduct since
the disqualification was imposed and any other circumstances of the
case, grant or refuse the application; and
- (b) order the applicant to pay all or any part of the costs of the
application;
and where an application in respect of an order is refused no further
application in respect of that order shall be entertained if made before
the end of the period of one year beginning with the date of the
refusal.
(7) Any person who-
- (a) has custody of a dog in contravention of an order under
subsection (1)(b) above; or
- (b) fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under
subsection (2)(a) above,
is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(8) A sum ordered to be paid by an order under subsection (2)(b) above
shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.
(9) In the application of this section to Scotland-
- (a) in subsection (3), for the words "Crown Court against the
order" there shall be substituted the words "High Court of
Justiciary against the order within the period of seven days
beginning with the date of the order";
- (b) for subsection (4)(a) there shall be substituted-
- "(a) until the end of the period of seven days beginning
with the date of the order"; and
- (c) in subsection (5), the words "(or any magistrates'
court acting for the same petty sessions area as that court)"
shall be omitted.
Section 2
Short title, saving, commencement and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Badgers (Further Protection) Act
1991.
(2) This Act does not apply to an offence committed before it comes
into force.
(3) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of two months
beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(4) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland
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