24. Obligation of probationary owners to dispose of unregistered
 dogs---(1) Where any person is classified as a probationary owner, that
 person shall, within 14 days after the date on which the notice of
 classification is, under section 21 (4) of this Act, given to that
 person, dispose of every unregistered dog owned by that person.

   (2) Every dog disposed of under this Act shall be disposed of in a
 manner that does not constitute an offence against this or any other
 Act.

   (3) Where any person lodges, within 14 days after the date on which
 the notice under section 21 (4) of this Act is given to that person, an
 objection under section 22 of this Act, subsection (1) of this section
 applies in relation to that person as if the period within which that
 person is required by that subsection to dispose of every unregistered
 dog owned by that person ends on the 14th day after the date on which
 the notice under section 22 (4) of this Act is given to that person.

   (4) Where any person is given a notice under section 21 (4) of this
 Act at a time at which that person is keeping an unregistered dog in
 contravention of section 42 (1) of this Act,---
   (a) It shall not be an offence against section 42 (1) of this Act for
         that person to keep that unregistered dog until the expiration
         of any period allowed by this section for the disposal by that
         person of that unregistered dog; and
   (b) Nothing in section 42 (2) of this Act authorises the seizure and
         impounding of that unregistered dog at any time while that dog
         is still being kept by that person and any period allowed by
         this section for the disposal by that person of that
         unregistered dog has not expired.