Dog Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

1963.] Dog. [No. 13.

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12° Elizabeth II., No. XIII.

No. 13 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Dog Act, 1903-1961.

[Assented to 5th November, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dog Act Vitirgatn

Amendment Act, 1963.

(2) In this Act the Dog Act, 1903-1961, is referred kicell;iii4ngefdthe

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S. II

amended. 2. Section nineteen of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (5) a subsec- tion as follows

(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if a dog is found wandering at large on a day when a pound in which that dog could otherwise have been placed is closed, or is found wandering at large in a district where no such pound is being maintained, an officer of the body known as the Dogs' Refuge Home (W.A.) Incorporated, who is authorised by that body for the purpose, may receive and keep the dog in any premises maintained and conducted by that body for the care of dogs, and in respect to that dog such officer shall have and may exercise all or any of the powers that a member of the Police Force or an officer of a local authority has and may exercise under the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section.

S. 21B

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section twenty-one A a section as follows-

Penalty for

abandoning 21B. A person who causes or permits a dog

dogs.

to be at large by abandoning it in any place

commits an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds.