Byelaws and Designation Orders
Skateboarding/Roller skating; Dogs on beaches; Dogs in pleasure grounds; Bathing in the sea or using the seashore; Acupuncture; Tattooing; Ear Piercing and Electrolysis; Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve; Hackney Carriages; Consumption of intoxicating liquor; Dogs Fouling of Land.
BYELAWS
Title | Date | Summary |
1st July 1996 | The byelaw introduces a ban on persons using roller skates, skateboards, wheels or other mechanical contrivances in the designated areas. In the remainder of the district, it is an offence for a person to roller skate, skateboard or use wheels or other mechanical contrivances in such a manner as to cause danger or nuisance to other persons lawfully using the footway or carriageway. | |
2nd September 1996 | No persons shall skate on rollers, skateboards, wheels or other mechanical contrivances in the designated areas. | |
5th November 1997 | The byelaw introduced restrictions on where dogs can be exercised on the beaches of Shaldon and the Promenade. There are three classifications of beaches, the first is dog prohibited beaches, the second is canine faeces removal beaches and thirdly dogs on leads beaches. | |
17th October 1994 | The byelaw introduces an offence of permitting a dog to enter or remain in the children's play area at King George V Playing Field, Shaldon. | |
7th February 2000 | Prohibits dogs from play area | |
21st April 1992 | The byelaw introduces an offence of permitting a dog to enter or remain in the children's play are at Decoy Park, Newton Abbot. | |
21st April 1992 | The byelaw introduces an offence of permitting a dog to enter or remain in the children's play area at Osborne Park, Newton Abbot and children's play area at Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot. | |
17th April 1989 | This byelaw introduces an offence for a person to permit their dog to enter or remain on certain beaches between the 1st May and the 30th September. The beaches covered are the seashore at Shaldon between Clipper Quay and the steps from the beach to the south east of Clipper Quay, the seashore at Teignmouth between the slipway at Eastcliff and the lighthouse, the seashore at Dawlish at Coryton Cove and the seashore at Dawlish from and including Boat Cove to the breakwater adjacent to The Lawn, the seashore at Dawlish between Langstone Rock and a point 230 metres to the south west of Langstone Rock. | |
17th April 1989 | This byelaw introduces the offence of permitting a dog to enter The Lawn in Dawlish, The Den and The Promenade in Teignmouth and two areas of land on either side of Beach Way, Dawlish Warren unless it is on a lead and restrained from behaviour giving reasonable grounds for annoyance. | |
10th September 2004 | The byelaws apply to three areas of sea between Langstone Rock at Dawlish and the southern end of Coryton Cove at Dawlish; between a point on the coast 800 metres to the north east of the pier at Teignmouth and The Point at Teignmouth; between the Ness at Shaldon and Bundle Head and extending seawards 200 metres from a mean high water spring tide. These byelaws introduced an offence for a navigator of a pleasure boat between the months of May to September inclusive to enter the water except in three "V" shaped channels which are shown on the plan attached to the byelaw. The byelaw also introduces an offence for the navigator of a pleasure boat who causes or permits the pleasure boat to be driven or sailed in a dangerous manner or without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons. The byelaws also introduce an offence for the navigator of a pleasure boat to use the engine which propels the boat unless it has a silencer. | |
 Acupuncture, Electrolysis, Tattooing, Cosmetic Piercing & Semi-Permanent Skin Colouring [3Mb] | 15th January 2007 | The byelaw was introduced for the purpose of securing the cleanliness of premises and fittings used for acupuncture, electrolysis, tattooing, cosmetic piercing and semi-permanent skin colouring. The byelaw states the requirements for compliance. The byelaw replaces the byelaws made on 16th April 1985. |
24th January 1983 | The byelaw places restrictions or prohibits the following: 1. Access to certain parts of the reserve. 2. Damage or disturbance to things in the reserve. 3. Bringing animals onto the reserve. 4. Bathing in, using a boat in or polluting areas of water in the reserve. 5. Use of vehicles elsewhere than on a highway or on a road in the reserve. 6. Possession of a firearm in the reserve. 7. Camping on the reserve. 8. Removing any notice board, apparatus, wall, boundary bank, fence, barrier, railing, post or hide. 9. Lighting a fire, stove, heater or other appliance capable of causing a fire. 10. Obstructing an officer of the Council in their work connected with the reserve. | |
3rd January 2002 | 1. Prohibits dogs on the seashore (as defined) except Tourist Beaches when the restriction does not apply between 1st October and 31st March inclusive. 2. Requires dogs in the Nature Reserve to be on a lead of not more than 2 metres long and to be restrained from behaviour giving reasonable grounds for annoyance or worrying any bird or animal. | |
14th May 1976 | This byelaw introduces provisions regulating the following: 1. The manner in which the number of each Hackney Carriage corresponds with the number of its licence and how that shall be displayed. 2. How Hackney Carriages are to be furnished or provided. 3. The conduct of proprietors and drivers of Hackney Carriages plying within the district in their several employments and determining whether such drivers shall wear and any and what badges. 4. The fixing of stands of Hackney Carriages in Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth. 5. The securing of safe custody and re-delivery of any property accidentally left in Hackney Carriages, and fixing the charges to be made in respect thereof. |
DESIGNATION ORDERS
Title | Date | Summary |
2nd February 2004 | The Order introduces an offence for consuming intoxicating liquor in designated places upon being warned by a Police constable not to do so.
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22nd October 2004 | The Order introduces an offence for consuming intoxicating liquor in designated places upon being warned by a Police constable not to do so.
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| Alcohol Consumption in Public Places [705kb] | 6th November 2006 | The Order introduces an offence for consuming intoxicating liquor in designated places upon being warned by a Police constable not to do so.
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18th October 1999 | The Order designates that all land in the District of Teignbridge be covered by the Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996.
Land open to the air to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access (with or without payment). Maximum penalty on summary conviction £1,000.
(a) a carriageway or highway unless there is a speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less; (b) land used for agriculture or woodlands; (c) land which is predominantly marshland, moor or heath; (d) common land to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access otherwise than by virtue of section 193(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925. |