DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 12
DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 12
12 . Joint jurisdiction
(1) Where a person
authorised to seize a dog under this Act pursues that dog from the district in
respect of which he is authorised into another district of the State, the
authorisation shall be deemed to apply in relation to that dog notwithstanding
that it is at any material time not in the district where the pursuit
commenced.
(2) Where 2 or more
local governments enter into an agreement to co-operate in the administration
of this Act, that agreement may provide that an authorisation for the purposes
of this Act given by any one of those local governments shall have effect in
the registration area administered by any other of those local governments,
and effect shall be given to any such agreement.
[Section 12 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]