Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to
subsection (2), any person who is liable for the control of a dog which
is a dangerous dog and who does not comply with any requirements
of —
(a)
section 33F or an order imposed under section 33F;
(b)
where the terms or conditions of any order under section 33F are from
time to time varied, whether by the local government or the State
Administrative Tribunal, in respect of that dog, the terms and conditions of
the order as so varied;
(c) an
order under section 40; or
(d)
section 33K(1), (2), (3) or (4),
commits an offence.
Penalty: $4 000 and a daily penalty of $400.
(2) A person who
becomes a person liable for the control of a dangerous dog shall be taken not
to have committed an offence under this Division if the person establishes
that —
(a)
before or when the person became so liable, the person was not informed that
the dog was a dangerous dog, and did not have any reasonable cause to believe
that the dog was a dangerous dog; and
(b) the
person was not subsequently, prior to the alleged offence, informed by a
person previously liable for the control of the dog, a local government or an
authorised person that the dog was a dangerous dog.
[Section 33L inserted by No. 24 of 1996
s. 10; amended by No. 10 of 1998 s. 29(1); No. 55 of 2004
s. 265.]