DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 51

DOG ACT 1976 - SECT 51

51 .         Local law making powers

                A local government may so make local laws —

            (a)         providing for the registration of dogs;

        [(b)         deleted]

            (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 where a dog is kept must be fenced in a manner capable of confining the dog;

            (e)         providing for the establishment and maintenance of dog management facilities 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)         deleted]

                  (i)         providing for the licensing, regulating, construction, use, and inspection of approved kennel establishments.

        [Section 51 amended: No. 23 of 1987 s. 42; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 18 of 2013 s. 56.]