New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 6

6 Meaning of “local authority”

(1) The "local authority" for a place is the council in the area of which the place is located.

(2) The regulations may provide that the functions of the local authority for a place are to be exercised for the purposes of this Act or specified provisions of this Act by a specified person or the holder of a specified office (instead of by the council provided for by subsection (1)). That person or the holder of that office is then the local authority for that place for the purposes of this Act or the relevant provisions of this Act.