New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 52B

52B Prohibition on accepting ownership of dangerous dog or proposed dangerous dog

(1) A person who accepts ownership of a dangerous dog or proposed dangerous dog is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 150 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this section:

(a) by reason only of taking delivery of, or detaining, a dog under Part 7 or as the consequence of a dog being surrendered to a council pound or an approved animal welfare organisation, or

(b) if the person does not know, or could not reasonably be expected to know, that the dog was a dangerous dog or proposed dangerous dog.