LegalizeThe Dangerous Dogs (Designated Types) (Scotland) Order 2024
Made: at 11.50 a.m. on 31st January 2024
Laid before the Scottish Parliament: at 4.00 p.m. on 31st January 2024
Coming into force: 23rd February 2024
The Scottish Ministers make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1)(c) and (8) of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991[^f00001], and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation, commencement and extent
1
- (1) This Order may be cited as the Dangerous Dogs (Designated Types) (Scotland) Order 2024 and comes into force on 23 February 2024.
- (2) This Order extends to Scotland only.
Designation for the purposes of section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
2
The type of dog known as the XL Bully is designated for the purposes of section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, being a type appearing to the Scottish Ministers to be bred for fighting or to have the characteristics of a type bred for that purpose.
Appointed day for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
3
The reference in article 2 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (Commencement and Appointed Day) Order 1991[^f00002] to 30 November 1991 is, in respect of dogs of the type designated by article 2, to be read as a reference to 31 July 2024.
Signed
SIOBHIAN BROWN — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — At 11.50 a.m. on 31st January 2024
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Article 2 of this Order designates the type of dog known as the XL Bully for the purposes of section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (“*the 1991 Act*”).
Section 1(3) of the 1991 Act enables a day to be appointed after which it will be unlawful to possess a dog which has been designated for the purposes of section 1, unless an exemption applies. The day appointed under section 1(3) was specified in article 2 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (Commencement and Appointed Day) Order 1991 as 30 November 1991. Article 3 of this Order provides that references to this date are to be read as references to 31 July 2024 in respect of dogs of the type designated by this Order.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1991 c. 65. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/1742. This Order was revoked for England and Wales only by S.I. 2015/138.
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