Companion Animals Act 1998 Proclamation re commencement (1999-267) [GG No 72 of 25.6.1999, p 4073] (NSW)

1999 No 267

Companion Animals Act 1998 New South Wales

No 87—Proclamation

(L.S.) GORDON SAMUELS, Governor I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Companion Animals Act 1998, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 July 1999 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 23rd day of June 1999.

By His Excellency’s Command,

HARRY WOODS, M.P.,

Minister for Local Government

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note
The object of this proclamation is to commence the uncommenced provisions of the Companion
Animals Act 1998.

Those provisions relate to the following matters:

(a)	the compulsory identification and registration of dogs and cats,
(b)	new cat control measures,
(c)	the repeal of the remaining unrepealed provisions of the Dog Act 1966 and the Dog

Regulation 1997.

BY AUTHORITY

Published in Gazette No 72 of 25 June 1999, page 4073

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