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TBINIDAD AND TOBAGO BULLETIN \XX. 1. 



Penalty for 

 permitting 

 unmnzzled 

 dog to be at 

 large. 



Unmuzzled 

 dogs ma_y be 

 destroj'ed. 



AVbere owner 

 claims 

 nmuzzleddog. 



I'roliibitionof 

 Jinportation. 



Penalty. 



rangcrous 

 ♦logs. 



(2) Such pi'oclamation may relate either to the whole Colony or to 

 any part or parts thereof therein named. . 



(8) Anj' such proclamation may be from time to time varied, 

 amended or revoked by the Governor in Executive Council. 



10. Any person who, in a district in which a proclamation under 

 section 9 of this Ordinance is in operation, permits any dog to go at large 

 without being muzzled in the prescribed manner, is liable to a penalty 

 not exceeding £2, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for 

 any term not exceeding one month. 



11. Any dog found in or upon any place, other than private premises, 

 without being muzzled in the prescribed manner, may be destroyed by 

 any Constable or person authorized in writing by any Inspector, in such 

 manner and by such means as may from time to time be prescribed, 

 after being kept for not less than three days in a prescribed place of 

 detention, unless the opinion of a Veterinary Surgeon or an Inspector it 

 be in such condition that it ought to be destroyed forthwith. 



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12. — (1) Where the owner of any dog found at large without being 

 muzzled as aforesaid claims such dog, such dog shall unless it has been 

 destroyed as hereinbefore provided, be restored to the owner upon 

 payment by him of the costs and expenses attendant on the detention 

 and delivery of such dog to its owner, togethsr with the further sum of 

 ten shillings by way of penalty. 



(2) If the owner shall refuse or neglect to pay such costs expenses 

 and penalty, such dog may be destroyed forthwith. 



Ji)iportation of Dogs. 

 13. — (1) It sliall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council 

 from time to time by proclamation to prohibit the importation of dogs 

 into this Colony during the continuance of such proclamation from any 

 specified country or part of such country either altogether or subject to 

 regulations made under this Ordinance. 



(2) Any such proclamation may fx'om time to time be varied, 

 amended or revoked by the Governor in Executive Council. 



(3) Nothing in this section contained shall affect the provisions of 

 section 14 of the Customs Ordinance (No. 178). 



14. Tlie master of any vessel from which any dog is landed in 



contravention of any proclamation under the last preceding section of 



this Ordinance, and any person landing or assisting or allowijig any such 



dog to be so landed, is liable to a penalty not exceeding £,2.0, or to 



imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding 



six months. 



General. 



15. — (1) Any Magistrate may take cognizance of a complaint that 



any dog in respect of which a license is granted is dangerous to person 



or property and not kept under proper control, and if it appears to such 



Magistrate that such dog is dangerous, such INfagistrate may make order 



in a summary way directing the dog to be kcpb by the owner under 



proper control, or he may order it to be destroyel. 



