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(1)The Minister may make such orders as he thinks fit for prescribing and regulating—
(a)the muzzling of dogs, and the keeping of dogs under control; and
(b)so far as is supplemental to paragraph (a) above—
(i)the seizure, detention, and disposal (including slaughter) of stray dogs and of dogs not muzzled, and of dogs not being kept under control; and
(ii)the recovery from the owners of dogs of the expenses incurred in respect of their detention.
(2)The appropriate Minister may make such orders as he thinks fit—
(a)for prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs, while in a highway or in a place of public resort, of a collar with the name and address of the owner inscribed on the collar or on a plate or a badge attached to it;
(b)with a view to the prevention of worrying of animals (including horses), for preventing dogs or any class of dogs from straying during all or any of the hours between sunset and sunrise;
(c)for providing that any dog in respect of which an offence is being committed against provisions made under either paragraph (a) or (b) above, may be seized and treated as a stray dog under the enactments relating to dogs;
(d)for prescribing and regulating—
(i)the seizure, detention and disposal (including slaughter) of stray dogs and of dogs not muzzled ; and
(ii)the recovery from the owners of dogs of the expenses incurred in respect of their detention.
(1)The Ministers may make such orders as they think fit for prescribing, regulating and securing the periodical treatment of all sheep by effective dipping or by the use of some other remedy for sheep scab.
(2)An inspector of the Minister and, if so authorised by order of the Minister, an inspector of the local authority, may—
(a)subject to the directions of the authority by which he was appointed, and
(b)for the purposes of any order or regulation under subsection (1) above,
enter any premises and examine any sheep on those premises.
(3)The owner and the person in charge of any sheep shall comply with all reasonable requirements of the inspector as to the collection and penning of the sheep and afford all other reasonable facilities for the examination of the sheep by the inspector.
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