DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 20
DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 20
20 . Offences relating to registration etc.
(1) A person who
—
(a)
wilfully inserts or omits, or permits to be inserted or omitted, in any
application for the grant or renewal of a registration any matter or thing
whatsoever contrary to, or for the purpose of concealing, the truth; or
(b)
whether on his own behalf or that of another person, for the purpose of
obtaining any benefit or avoiding any penalty or obligation under this Act,
wilfully makes or causes to be made any representation or statement which is
false or misleading in any material particular or which he knows or ought
reasonably to know is likely to deceive any person; or
(c)
keeps any dog wearing a registration tag —
[(i) deleted]
(ii)
issued in respect of another dog; or
(iii)
in respect of a registration which is cancelled;
or
(d)
wrongfully removes or defaces any registration tag issued under this Act, or
makes, uses, purchases or has in his possession any counterfeit or false
certificate of registration or registration tag or any thing apparently
intended to resemble or pass for the same,
commits an offence.
Penalty:
(a) for
an offence relating to a dangerous dog, a fine of $10 000;
(b) for
an offence relating to a dog other than a dangerous dog, a fine of $5 000.
(2) Where by
regulations it is provided that a prescribed tattoo appearing on a dog may be
accepted by a local government as proof that the dog has been sterilised, a
person who applies that tattoo, or causes the same to be applied, to an
unsterilised dog commits an offence.
Penalty: a fine of $5 000.
[Section 20 amended: No. 23 of 1987 s. 19 and 44;
No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 24 of 1996 s. 16; No. 18 of 2013 s. 20.]
[Heading inserted: No. 18 of 2013 s. 21.]