WESTERN AUSTRALIA
DOG AMENDMENT ACT
No. 23 of 1987
AN ACT to amend the Dog Act 1976.
[Assented to 25 June 1987]
BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Dog Amendment Act 1987.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is, or such days
as are respectively, fixed by proclamation.
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3. In this Act the Dog Act 1976* is referred to as the principal Act.
[*Reprinted as approved 17 September 1984.]
Section 3 amended
4. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended
| (a) | by inserting after the section designation "3." the subsection designation "(1)"; |
(b) in subsection (1)-
(i) by inserting after the definition of "guide dog" the
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following definitions -
"metropolitan region" has the meaning assigned to it for the time being by section 6 of the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959;
"owner" in relation to a dog means
| (a) | the person by whom the dog is ordinarily kept; or |
| (b) | a person who is deemed by subsection (2) to be the owner of the dog; |
"person liable for the control of the dog" means each
of the following
| (a) | the registered owner of the dog; |
| (b) | the owner of the dog; |
| (c) | the occupier of any premises where the dog is ordinarily kept or ordinarily permitted to live; or |
| (d) | a person who has the dog in hi; possession or under his control, |
but does not include
| (e) | a registered veterinary surgeon, or |
| person acting on his behalf, in the course |
| of his professional practice; or |
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(f) a police officer or other person acting under a statutory duty or in the administration of this Act; ";
(ii) by inserting after the definition of "premises" the following definitions -
" "public place" means any place to which the public
has access;
"registered owner" means the person in whose name
the dog is registered under this Act;
"registered veterinary surgeon" means a veterinary surgeon registered under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1960; ";
(iii) in the definition of "registration officer" by deleting "an officer of the council" and substituting the following
a person ";
(iv) by inserting after the definition of "registration officer" the following definitions-
" "sterilized" means rendered sterile
| (a) | in the case of a female dog, by ovariectomy or ovariohysterectomy; and |
| (b) | in the case of a male dog, by castration; |
"townsite" means
| (a) | land constituted, defined, or reserved as the site of a town or village under the Land Act 1933; |
| (b) | land subdivided or laid out as the site for a townsite, township, or village, in accordance with the subdivisional plan, registered in the Office of Titles or the… |