DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 11
DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 11
11 . Staff and services
(1) For the purposes
of this Act a local government may establish and maintain one or more dog
management facilities and may appoint, under and subject to the provisions of
the Local Government Act 1995 , fit and proper persons to administer those
facilities and otherwise to carry out the objects of this Act.
(2) Where each of 2 or
more local governments desire to establish and maintain dog management
facilities or other services required by this Act, or otherwise to co-operate
in the administration of this Act, then notwithstanding the provisions of any
other law it shall be lawful for an agreement pursuant to section 3.68 of the
Local Government Act 1995 , to be entered into and carried out for that
purpose between them.
(3) A person who is
authorised by a local government to exercise any power under this Act shall be
furnished with a certificate in the prescribed form evidencing his
appointment, and shall produce that certificate on being required so to do by
a person in respect of whom he exercises, has exercised, or is about to
exercise any such power.
(4) Subsection (3) is
subject to the Public Health Act 2016 section 31.
(5) Subsection (3)
does not apply to a person appointed under the Local Government Act 1995
section 9.10(2) to be an authorised person for the purposes of this Act.
[Section 11 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 18
of 2013 s. 9; No. 19 of 2016 s. 131; No. 16 of 2019 s. 107.]