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In 1847, it became a criminal offence to let a dangerous dog run loose. The power to confiscate dogs was introduced in 1871. Prohibition of owning a dog as a penalty was available in 1989. The 1991 Act banned four types of dog, and made it an offence for an owner to allow any dog "to be dangerously out of control".
A dog shall be regarded as dangerously out of control on any occasion on which there are grounds for reasonable apprehension that it will injure any person, whether or not it actually does so, but references to a dog injuring a person or there being grounds for reasonable apprehension that it will do so do not include references to any case in ...
The laws then state it will be illegal to own an XL bully from 1 February, 2024. ... The breed will become the fifth type of dog prohibited under the Dangerous Dogs Act in the UK, alongside the ...
Ashley Warren, 40, has denied being in charge of a dog which caused injury resulting in death while dangerously out of control in a private place. Esther Martin, who was fatally mauled by two XL ...
Paterson, William (ed). "Dogs Act". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1871. Horace Cox. Wellington Street, Strand, London. 1871. Pages 142 to 148. "The Law and the Lawyers" (1885 to 1886) The Law Times 21, 128, 203 "The Dog Regulations and the Dog Owners" (1886) 21 The Law Journal 527 (18 September). See also pages 39, 525, 531 and 586.
The 29-year-old woman is being held in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a dog dangerously out of control causing serious injury. Further enquiries are ...
Animal welfare laws are enforced by local authorities. A 2024 report by the Animal Law Foundation found there to be one local authority inspector for every 878 farms in England, Scotland and Wales and that in 2022 and 2023, 2.5% of the more than 300,000 UK farms were inspected at least once. [6]
The prime minister hopes to ban the breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act by the end of the year American XL bully dogs to be banned in UK following spate of ‘horror’ attacks, says Rishi Sunak ...