DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 15

DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 15

15 .         Registration periods and fees

        (1)         Subject to the provisions of this section, the registration fee payable in relation to a dog shall be such amount as is prescribed by regulation.

        (2)         The registration under this Act of a dog, other than a dangerous dog, has effect from the date specified in the registration certificate until —

            (a)         in the case of registration for an extended period prescribed under subsection (3)(b), 31 October in the final year of that period, unless cancelled sooner; or

            (b)         in the case of registration for a dog’s lifetime, the dog’s death, unless cancelled sooner; or

            (c)         in all other cases, the next 31 October, unless cancelled sooner.

        (3A)         The registration under this Act of a dangerous dog has effect from the date specified in the registration certificate until the next 31 October, unless cancelled sooner.

        (3)         Regulations may provide that concessional rates of registration fee shall be payable —

            (a)         by persons of a specified class or in specified circumstances; and

            (b)         by persons who elect to effect registration of a dog for such extended period as is prescribed; and

            (ca)         by persons who elect to effect registration for the lifetime of a dog; and

            (c)         in respect of registration for a period of less than one year; and

            (d)         in respect of a dog that is proved, in such manner as is prescribed, to have been sterilised; and

            (e)         in respect of a dog that is kept in an approved kennel establishment licensed under section 27; and

            (f)         in respect of a dog that is kept in prescribed circumstances.

        (4A)         A local government may discount or waive a registration fee, including a registration fee prescribed under subsection (3), for any individual dog or any class of dogs within its district.

        (4B)         Subsections (3) and (4A) do not apply to a dangerous dog.

        (4)         No registration fee shall be payable in relation to an assistance dog as defined in section 8(1), or any dog that is kept for the purposes of the Crown.

        (5)         The registration fee payable in relation to a dog that is bona fide used in the droving or tending of stock shall be one quarter of the fee that would otherwise be payable.

        (6)         The registration fee payable in relation to a dog’s first registration —

            (a)         that takes effect after 31 May and before 1 November in the year of the first registration; and

            (b)         that is to have effect until 31 October in that year,

                is one half of the fee that would otherwise be payable.

        [Section 15 amended: No. 57 of 1977 s. 3; No. 23 of 1987 s. 13; No. 18 of 2013 s. 13.]