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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.]