Dog Act amendment (1885) (WA)

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ANNO QT.TADRAGESIMO NONO

VICTORIA' REGINA.

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No. X.

AN ACT to amend " The Dog Act, 1883."

[Assented to, 18th September, 1885.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend " The Dog Act, 1883 :"

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western

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Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and Consent

'of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. THE time within which the owner of a dog shall register

such dog in each and every year after the first day of January, or Time of Registration

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after he shall have become the owner at any other period of the e xtended to -thrty

days.

year, is hereby extended from fifteen to thirty days, and whenever

the words "fifteen days" occur in the fourth and eleventh sections

of the said Act the words " thirty days " are hereby substituted in

lieu thereof.

2. THE words " a sum of Forty shillings," in the eleventh Penalty for non.

section of the said Act, are hereby repealed, and the words " a sum	registration.
not exceeding Forty shillings " are substituted in lieu thereof.

3.	SECTIONS 17 and 18 and the proviso at the end of section	Sees. 17, 18, and
proviso of a. 11 of 47

11 of "The Dog Act, 1883," are hereby repealed. Viet., 13, repealed.

49" VICTORI1E, No. 10.

Dog Act, 1883—Amendment.

THE provisions aforesaid shall not affect any liability in- curred, or any proceedings commenced or taken in respect thereof before the coming into force of this Act, but such proceedings may be continued as if this Act had not passed.

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Saving Manse.

5.     IT shall be lawful for any aboriginal native to keep one

Dogs of aboriginai unregistered dog ; Provided, always, that whenever the number of	natives t° 6e des unregistered dogs found in the possession of one or more Ratites
troyed certain
cases. shall be in excess of the number of the party of such natives, includ- ing men, women, and children, such dog -or dogs in excess shall be liable to be destroyed, and all constables are hereby authorised to destroy the same.

In the name and on -behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

By Authority 'CHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.