Dog Act 1966 (NSW)

Administrator, in relation to prescribed land, means the person prescribed, whether by reference to the person being the holder of an office or otherwise, as the administrator of that land for the purposes of this definition.

Animal includes poultry and domesticated birds.

Area has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993.

Collar means a collar of leather or other durable material.

Council has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993.

Disc means a disc or badge of metal or plastic or such other material as may be prescribed.

Dog includes a bitch and a desexed dog or bitch.

Greyhound means a dog that is wholly or partly of the species or kind commonly known as “greyhound” or that belongs wholly or partly to any variety of that species or kind by whatever name the variety is known.

Owner, in relation to a dog, means (whether or not the dog is a registered dog), the person by whom the dog is ordinarily kept and includes:

• (a)

  where the dog (whether or not it is a registered dog) is, at any particular time, ordinarily kept on any land or on any premises, the person who is the occupier of that land or those premises at that time, and

• (b)

  where the dog is, at any particular time, a registered dog, the person recorded under section 16 as the registered owner of the dog at that time.

Prescribed land means any public place, or any part of a public place, which is prescribed for the purposes of this definition.

Provocation of a dog:

• (a)

  by a person—includes:

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    teasing, tormenting or abusing the dog, or

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    any act of cruelty towards the dog, or

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    entry without lawful excuse on any land, vehicle or premises of which the owner of the dog is an occupier or on which the dog is ordinarily kept, or

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    attacking the owner of the dog, or any person…