Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to
subsection (4), the provisions of this Act apply generally to all dogs,
whether sterilized or unsterilized, and of whatever age.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), this Act applies subject to the Highways (Liability for
Straying Animals) Act 1983 , so that, where a provision of that Act is
inconsistent with a provision of this Act, the provision of that Act prevails
and the provision of this Act is inoperative to the extent of the
inconsistency.
(3)
Subsection (2) does not prevent or in any way affect the liability
of —
(a) the
owner; or
(b) a
person deemed under section 46(5) to be the owner,
of a dog in respect
of —
(c)
injury to any person or animal inflicted by the dog; or
(d)
damage to the clothing or other property of a person caused by the dog,
in the course of an
attack by that dog on a highway.
(4) The provisions of
this Act, and of any regulation or local law which is made under this Act, do
not apply to or in relation to a dog when it is working with a member of the
Police Force on duty, and despite anything in any written law a member of the
Police Force on duty is entitled to be accompanied, at all times and in all
places, by a dog with which that member is working.
[Section 6 amended by No. 64 of 1983
s. 3; No. 23 of 1987 s. 6; No. 24 of 1996 s. 5;
No. 10 of 1998 s. 29(2).]