Hong Kong Regulations

DANGEROUS DOGS REGULATION - SECT 14

Power to give directions

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) For the purposes of the Ordinance or this Regulation, an authorized
officer may, by notice in writing, direct the keeper of a dog to-

   (a)  present the dog for weighing or inspection or both at such place and
        in such manner as may be specified in the direction;

   (b)  deliver the dog for detention at such place, in such manner and for
        such period of detention as may be specified in the direction;

   (c)  confine the dog to such place, in such manner and for such period as
        may be specified in the direction;

   (d)  control or restrain the dog while it is in a public place or in any
        other place from which it may reasonably be expected to enter a
        public  place by such measures as may be specified in the direction.

(2) The keeper of a dog who fails to comply within a reasonable time with a
direction given to him under subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable
on conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 3 months.