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Animals.

400 Sect.

By

2.

Statute.

Metropolis.

Within the metropolitan area the police have power to destroy any dog (or other animal) reasonably suspected of being in a rabid state, or of having been bitten by any animal in a rabid state, and the owner who permits any such dog or animal to go at large after having information or reasonable ground for believing that it is in a rabid state or has been bitten by any dog (or other animal) in a rabid state, is liable to a penalty of not more than five pounds (g). Sub-Sect.

Muzzling orders in metropolis.

Muzzling of Bogs.

5.

864. In the metropolis the Commissioner of Police may issue a notice requiring any dog while in the streets and not led by some person to be muzzled. The police may detain, and if not claimed within three clear days may sell or destroy, dogs found loose in the streets and unmuzzled during the currency of the notice but if a dog has a collar and an address on it, they must send a letter to the address stating that the dog has been taken possession of (Ii).

Sub-Sect. CJnburied carcases of cattle.

is liable to

a fine not exceeding forty shillings Sub-Sect.

Use of dogs for draught.

866. No dog

7.

Agriculture

and

Fisheries,

(^).

Use of Dogs for Draught.

may

be used on any public highway in any part of for the purpose of drawing or helping to draw any cart, carriage, truck or barrow, under a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, or five pounds for a subsequent offence {j). the United

Kingdom

Sub-Sect. Powers of Board of

Burial of Carcases.

6.

865. Any person who knowingly and without reasonable excuse permits the carcase of any head of cattle belonging to him to remain unburied in a field or other place to which dogs can gain access,

Dogs Orders.

8.

867. In addition to the statutory provisions as to the regulation and control of dogs, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is empowered to make Orders, which have all the force of statutory enactments, for the following purposes {g)

Metropolitan Police Act, 1839

Order, see p. 402, (h)

power

(2

&

{k)

3 Vict.



c.

47),

s.

61.

As

to

tlie

Eabies

jpost.

Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Yict. c. 134), s. 18. As to the of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to make Orders as to muzzling

dogs, see p. 401, post. The object of this provision is to ('/) Dogs Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c, 32), s. 6. prevent the owners of cattle, who are given a remedy for injury done to their cattle by dogs, from encouraging in dogs the propensity to trespass, by leaving carcases in places which are accessible to dogs, Animals Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 60), s. 2, extending to (./) Cruelty to the whole kingdom a similar provision of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 56. {k) The empowering statutes are the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 57), s. 22 (xxx.), (xxxi.), and the Dogs Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 32), s. 2. The Orders now in force are the Eabies Order, 1897 (Ord. 5578, March 23, 1897), the Importation of Dogs Order, 1901 (Ord. 6396 of 1901), and the Dogs Order, 1906 (Ord. 7124, October 22, 1906), which came into operation on January 1, 1907. It is not possible in these pages to give more than a short summary of the main provisions of these Orders, copies of which may be obtained from the King's Printers.