New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE REGULATION 2009 - REG 9

9 Taking and keeping of animals in parks

(1) A person must not:

(a) take into or release an animal in a park or onto any public or other road traversing a park, or

(b) place or keep an animal in a park or on any public or other road traversing a park, or

(c) have charge, possession or control of an animal in a park or on any public or other road traversing a park, or

(d) fail to prevent an animal of which the person has charge, possession or control from entering a park or entering onto any public or other road traversing a park.

Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.

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

(a) if the animal is an assistance animal, or

(b) if a person takes an animal into a park or onto any public or other road traversing a park, in accordance with and subject to any conditions stated in a plan of management for a park, unless a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the taking of animals into the park or any part of the park to which the plan of management relates, or

(c) for anything done or omitted with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(3) Nothing in this clause prevents a park authority for a regional park from prohibiting the things referred to in subclause (1) by means of notices displayed in accordance with this Regulation.

(4) In this clause:
"assistance animal" means an animal referred to in section 9 (Disability discrimination-guide dogs, hearing assistance dogs and trained animals) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.
"park" does not include a regional park.