Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1969
Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1969
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Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1969
Public Act |
1969 No 13 |
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Date of assent |
22 August 1969 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Dogs Registration Act 1955
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1969, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Dogs Registration Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Dogs to be registered
Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsections:
“(3)
Where—
“(a)
The owner of any dog is convicted of an offence in respect of the dog under subsection (2) of this section or under this subsection; and
“(b)
He continues to be the owner of the dog at the expiration of fourteen days after the date of that conviction; and
“(c)
The dog has not been registered under this Act before the expiration of that period,—
he commits a further offence, and is liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for every day after the expiration of the said period of fourteen days on which the dog, being owned by him, is not for the time being registered under this Act.
“(4)
Every information for an offence against subsection (3) of this section shall be laid by a Registrar for the district in which the dog is required to be registered.”
3 Collars and labels to be kept at office
(1)
The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing section 5, and substituting the following section:
“5
“(1)
There shall be kept at every registration office a supply of dog collars having labels affixed thereon and a supply of separate labels or discs. The labels or discs, whether attached to collars or separate, shall be numbered consecutively and marked with the name of the district and the year for which they are issued.
“(2)
Every person shall be entitled to receive a collar having a label affixed thereon, or at his option a separate label or disc for attachment to a collar owned by him, in respect of each dog that he registers.
“(3)
Duplicate collars having a label affixed thereon or, as the case may be, duplicate labels or discs shall be issued on payment of the cost thereof on affirmation that the original has been lost or stolen.”
(2)
The principal Act is hereby further amended—
(a)
By inserting in subsection (1) of section 6, after the word “collar”
wherever it occurs, the words “or separate label or disc”
:
(b)
By adding to subsection (2) of section 7 the words “or, as the case may be, a separate label or disc to be attached to a collar owned by that person and to be worn on the neck of the dog so registered”
:
(c)
By omitting from section 14, the words “label thereon”
, and substituting the words “label or disc thereon or attached thereto”
:
(d)
By omitting from subsection (1) of section 15 and also from subsection (2) the words “label thereon”
, and substituting in each case the words “label or disc thereon or attached thereto”
:
(e)
By inserting in section 16, after the word “label”
wherever it appears, the words “or disc”
:
(f)
By omitting from paragraph (b) of section 17 the words “label of registration affixed”
, and substituting the words “label or disc of registration affixed or attached”
:
(g)
By inserting in section 17, after the words “collar or label”
, the words “or disc”
:
(h)
By omitting from subsection (1) of section 30a (as inserted by section 2 of the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1962) the words “label thereon”
, and substituting the words “label or disc thereon or attached thereto”
.
4 Registration fees
Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:
“(1a)
Where the fee for the registration of any dog for any registration year is paid before the commencement of that year and the dog dies before the commencement of that year, the local authority shall refund the fee to the person who paid it.”
5 Meaning of “working dog”
Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (5), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(b)
Owned by a Pest Destruction Board, or by a person employed by a Pest Destruction Board, and kept solely for the purpose of destroying pests as defined in the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967:”.
6 Impounding of dogs
Section 30a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1962) is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (1), after the words “or of dogs”
, the words “, whether or not they are wearing a collar having the proper label or disc thereon or attached thereto,”
.
7 Delegation of powers by local authority
(1)
The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing section 36a (as inserted by section 3 of the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1961), and substituting the following section:
“36a
“(1)
Any local authority may from time to time, by agreement with any Hydatids Control Authority within the meaning of the Hydatids Act 1968, delegate to that Hydatids Control Authority the functions, powers, and duties conferred on the local authority by this Act, except the powers conferred by section 30 or section 30a of this Act.
“(2)
Any Hydatids Control Authority to which any functions, powers, and duties have been delegated under this section shall have and may exercise and perform those functions, powers, and duties in the district of the local authority making the delegation, as if—
“(a)
Every reference in this Act to a local authority were a reference to the Hydatids Control Authority:
“(b)
The term ‘district’, in relation to the Hydatids Control Authority, included the district of the local authority making the delegation:
“(c)
Every reference in this Act to the ordinary general fund of a local authority were a reference to the Hydatids Control Account of the Hydatids Control Authority.”
(2)
Section 3 of the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1961 is hereby consequently repealed.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, being the date of the commencement of the Hydatids Act 1968.
This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.
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