Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts A local government may
so make local laws —
(a)
providing for the registration of dogs;
(b)
specifying places where dogs are prohibited absolutely;
(ba)
extending the operation of section 31, with all necessary modifications,
to specified public places or classes of public places that are outside the
metropolitan region or a townsite;
(bb)
specifying any public place or class of public place, being a place that is
under the care, control and management of the local government, as a dog
exercise area for the purposes of sections 31 and 32;
(c)
specifying areas within which it shall be an offence (unless the excreta are
removed) for any person liable for the control of a dog to permit that dog to
excrete on any street or public place or on any land without the consent of
the occupier;
(d)
requiring that in specified areas a portion of the premises on which a dog is
kept must be fenced in a manner capable of confining the dog;
(e)
providing for the establishment and maintenance of pounds and other services
and facilities necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act;
(f)
providing for the detention, maintenance, care and release or disposal of dogs
seized;
(g) as
to the destruction of dogs pursuant to the powers hereinbefore conferred;
(h) as
to the number of dogs that may be kept pursuant to section 26 or
section 27; and
(i)
providing for the licensing, regulating, construction,
use, and inspection of approved kennel establishments.
[Section 51 amended by No. 23 of 1987
s. 42; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]