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ACT TO PROVIDE PROTECTION AGAINST DOGS. 
Danger- 
ous dogs 
may be 
destroyed. 
Restric- 
tion upon 
dogs being 
at large if 
danger 
from mad 
dogs is 
appre- 
hended. 
Penalty, 
how to be 
recovered. 
police of the district in which such dog was found may 
cause such dog to be sold or destroyed. 
Any moneys arising from the sale of any dogs in pur- 
suance of this section shall be paid to the account of the 
local rate, and be applied to the purposes to which that 
rate is applicable. 
All dogs detained under this section shall be properly 
fed and maintained at the expense of the local rate. 
2. Any court of summary jurisdiction may take cogni- 
zance of a complaint that a dog is dangerous, and not kept 
under proper control, and if it appears to the court having 
cognizance of such complaint that such dog is dangerous, 
the court may make an order in a summary way directing 
the dog to be kept by the owner under proper control or 
destroyed, and any person failing to comply with such 
order shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty 
shillings for every day during which he fails to comply 
with such order. 
3. The local authority may, if a mad dog or a dog 
suspected of being mad is found within their jurisdiction, 
make, and when made vary or revoke, an order placing 
such restrictions as they think expedient on all dogs not 
under the control of any person during such period as 
may be prescribed in such order throughout the whole of 
their jurisdiction, or such part thereof as may be pre- 
scribed in such order. 
Any person who acts in contravention of any order 
made in pursuance of this section shall be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding twenty shillings. 
Due notice of such order shall be published at the 
expense of the local rate. 
The provisions in this Act contained as to the detention 
and sale or destruction of dogs found straying on the 
highway shall apply to dogs found at large in contraven- 
tion of any order made in pursuance of this section. 
4. In England and Ireland any penalty under this Act 
may be recovered in manner provided by the Summary 
Jurisdiction Act, and in Scotland all such penalties shall 
be prosecuted and recovered before a court of summary 
jurisdiction, under the provisions of the Summary Juris- 
diction Act, 1864. 
