Power to seize dogs in certain cases

(1) Whenever a dog is seen in a town, on a highway or in a place of public resort in any of the following cases, cases. (a) not having a collar with a licensing badge for the current year attached thereto; (b) appearing to be a stray or ownerless dog; (c) being a bitch in heat and being neither led nor carried; (d) suffering from any contagious disease and not being carried; or (e) suffering from any disease or injury which causes pain to the dog and being neither led nor carried, that dog may be seized by any police officer or dog catcher and the owner of the dog shall in cases (a), (b) and (c) be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, 8 Provided that a person shall not be convicted under paragraph (a) of this subsection, if he proves that no licence is required in respect of the dog. (2) Every dog catcher shall, while exercising the powers conferred by this section, wear a distinctive badge or uniform of a pattern approved by the Minister. (3) For purposes of section 39 of the Police Act, Cap. 138, a dog catcher exercising the power conferred by this section and wearing such badge or uniform specified in subsection (2) of this section, shall be deemed to be a police officer acting in the execution of his duty.