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| | Thursday 12 September 2013 |
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| | For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:
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| | 585, 587, 589-90 and 709-14 |
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| | Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill, As Amended |
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| | | Dog number control notice |
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘(1) | This section applies where more than one dog is being kept in a domestic property |
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| | | (2) | Where an authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe that the number of |
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| | | dogs being kept in a domestic property gives rise to a risk that any one or more of |
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| | | the dogs may become dangerously out of control while in or partly in the |
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| | | domestic property (“the risk”), he or she may serve on the person in charge a |
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| | | written control notice which— |
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| | | (a) | states that the authorised officer is of that belief; |
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| | | (b) | specifies the maximum number of dogs which, in the opinion of the |
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| | | authorised officer, are capable of being kept in the domestic property |
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| | | such as to sufficiently reduce the risk; |
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| | | (c) | requires the person in charge to reduce the number of dogs kept in the |
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| | | domestic property to no more than the number specified under paragraph |
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| | | (d) | specifies the date by which the terms of the control notice must be |
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| | | (3) | A control notice may be served on more than one person in respect of one |
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| | | (4) | It is an offence for a person without reasonable excuse to fail to comply with a |
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| | | requirement under subsection (2). |
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| | | (5) | A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction |
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| | | to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. |
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| | | (6) | An authorised officer may make a complaint to a Magistrates’ Court if a person |
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| | | in charge fails, to the satisfaction of the authorised officer, to comply with the |
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| | | steps required in a control notice within the time period specified. |
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| | | (7) | A Magistrates’ Court receiving a complaint under subsection (6) shall, if it finds |
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| | | that the person in charge has failed to comply with the steps required in a control |
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| | | notice, make an order in a summary way directing any of the dogs kept in the |
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| | | domestic property to be destroyed. |
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| | | “authorised officer” means a person appointed by a local authority within |
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| | | whose area the domestic property is situated for the purposes of this |
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| | | “domestic property” means a building, or part of a building, that is a |
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| | | dwelling or is forces accommodation (or both); |
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| | | “person in charge” means the owner or owners, and if different, person or |
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| | | persons for the time being in charge of the dogs.’. |
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