Dog Act Amendment Act 1899 (WA)

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AN ACT to further amend the Dog Act, 1883.

[Assented to, 9th October, 1899.

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1, THIS Act may be cited as the Dog Act Amendment Act,

Short title and com-

1899, and shall be incorporated with the Dog Act, 1883, hereinafter	mencement.
called the principal Act, and shall come into force on the thirty-first day of December, 1899, hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this Act.

2. IN this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Interpretation.

" District" means a municipality or a road board district, as

the case may be ;

" Prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under

this Act ;

63° VICTORIZE, No. 12.

Dog Act—Amendment.

" Registering Officer" means and includes every person appointed under the principal Act to enter the registration of clogs in a municipality, and every person appointed under this Act to enter the registration of dogs within the district of a road board.

3. AFTER the commencement of tins Act,

(i.) Dogs required by the principal Act to be registered at a

Dogs outside muni-

cipality not to be

Court of Petty Sessions, or at the residence of a person

registered as hereto-

appointed under that Act to enter the registration of

fore.

dogs not intended to be kept within a municipality, shall

no longer be so registered ;

(2.) The Justices of Courts of Petty Sessions shall not make

Justices to make no

more appointments	any appointments under the sixth section of the princi-
of registering	pal Act ;
officers.

(3.) Every road board shall appoint one or more persons to

Road board to ap-

point registering

enter the registration of dogs at a place or places within

officers.

the district of such board, and shall give public notice of the appointments of such persons and places by publi-

cation in the Government Gazette and in a newspaper

circulating in the district, and by posting such notice in

some conspicuous place within the district ;

(4.) As regards dogs which are required by the principal Act

Dogs outside muni-

cipalities to be	to be registered at a place other than the office of a
registered with	municipality, the registration fee shall be paid to and the
road board's
Officers.	entries of registration shall be made by the persons and at the places appointed under this Act by the road board within the district of which the dog is intended to be kept.

47 Viet., 13, to be read 4. TI-IE principal Act shall be read as if the registering officers

as if road boards offi-	to be appointed by road boards under this Act were substituted for
cers were substituted
for certain persons	the persons appointed under that Act to enter the registration of dogs
appointed under that	in places not within a municipality.
Act.

Road board or chair- 5. TI-IE road board, or the chairman thereof, may exercise the

man to exercise	authority conferred on a Justice of the Peace by the twelfth and
authority of J.P.
under 47 Viet., No.	fifteenth sections of the principal Act.
13, ss. 12 and 15.

Registration fees to 6. THE moneys received by the registering officers appointed

belong to road

by a road board under this Act shall belong to the road board, and

boards.

such board, out of the moneys so received, may, if it thinks fit,

give rewards for the destruction of wild dogs.

63° VICTORIX, No. 12.

Dog Act—Amendment.

7. THE registering officers appointed by the road board r

under this Act shall make monthly returns of all clogs registered as Duty of oad board officers to make

required by the sixteenth section, but need not otherwise comply certain returns.

with that section.

IT shall be the duty of every registering officer, before the thirtieth clay of June in every year, to cause inquiries to be made	Registering officer to
snake inquiries in
on all the premises occupied by any person within his district for the	his district for un-registered dogs, with
purpose of ascertaining if any unregistered clogs are kept thereon,	power to get search
and the registering officer, or sonic person authorised in writing by	warrant.
him, on proof to the satisfaction of any :Justice of the Peace that there is reason to suspect that any unregistered dog is kept on any premises, shall apply to such Justice for, and such Justice shall grant, a warrant authorising the registering officer, or person so authorised by him, to search any part of 'such premises, other than a dwelling-house, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any unregistered dog is kept thereon, and search shall be made accord- ingly.

8.

SECTION five of the Dog Act Amendment Act, 1885, is repealed, and the following provisions are hereby substituted	Amendment of Sec. 5
of 49 Viet., No. 10.
in lieu thereof shall be lawful for' male adult aboriginal native to keep one dog (which shall be'-registered free .of charge); provided always, that such clog shall:be kept free from mange or other contagious disease. Upon representation being made by any person to a Justice of the Peace or a Chairman of a Roads Board that such clog is liable to spread disease by reason of its neglected state, such Justice or Chairman, as the case may be, may order the destruction of such dog.

9.

10. SECTION thirteen of the principal Act is hereby amended ,, • Amendment of Soc.

by striking out the words p ° not belonging to an aboriginal native, m 13 of Dog Act, 1883.

the second line of the said section.

THE Governor may from time to time make, and from time to time alter and repeal, regulations for carrying this Regulations. 11.

and the principal Act into effect in respect of any matters herein referred to as "prescribed," and such regulations shall be published in the Government Gazette, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after such publication, if Parliament be then sitting, and, if Parliament be not then sitting, within fourteen days after its next meeting ; and all such regulations, when so published, shall have the force , of law, and shall continue in force unless repealed or altered as aforesaid, or disallowed by both Houses of Parliament.

63° VICTORIA, No. 12.

Dog Act—Amendment.

Scalp, ears, and tail by inserting immediately before the word " tail," in the second, third, 12. SECTION nineteen of the principal Act is hereby amended

of wild dogs to be ,

produced. eighth, and tenth lines thereof, the wordy " scalp, ears, and ;" and by

substituting for the words " it is," in the second and third lines thereof, the words " they are," and for the word " has," in the tenth and eleventh lines, the word "have."

in the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

GERARD SMITH, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETREL Government Printer, Perth.