New South Wales Consolidated Acts

IMPOUNDING ACT 1993 - SECT 26

26 Impounding fees and charges

(1) An impounding authority may fix the fees and charges that are to be paid in respect of the impounding, holding and disposing of an item by the authority and its impounding officers. The Commissioner of Police may by order in writing fix the fees and charges that are to be paid in respect of the impounding of an item by a police officer.

(2) The fees and charges that may be fixed are as follows:

• a fee for walking or transporting an impounded animal to the pound or to the address of its owner and to a market or saleyard for sale,

• a charge for providing an impounded animal with food, water and veterinary care,

• a charge for loss or damage attributable to an impounded animal while it was unattended or trespassing,

• a fee for conveying an impounded article to a pound,

• a fee for storing an impounded article at the pound,

• a fee to cover the cost of serving a notice notifying the owner of an impounded item that the item may be or has been impounded.

(3) Fees and charges may be fixed so as to differ according to the kinds of animals or articles impounded.

(4) A fee or charge must not exceed the corresponding maximum fee or charge (if any) prescribed by the regulations, and any amount that is fixed so as to exceed the maximum is reduced to the maximum.

(5) Fees and charges fixed under this section are the fees and charges payable in respect of the impounding, holding and disposing of an item under this Act.

(6) An impounding authority must remit to the Commissioner of Police any fee or charge paid to or deducted or recovered by the authority that was payable in respect of the impounding of an item by a police officer.

(7) An impounding authority may waive payment of a fee or charge, or part of a fee or charge, in respect of the impounding of an animal in a public place that had strayed because a gate or fence had ceased to be animal proof due to fire, flood or other natural disaster.