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Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1973

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Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1973

Public Act		1973 No 59
Date of assent		21 November 1973

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Guide dogs for the blind
	Administrative information

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 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Dogs Registration Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Guide dogs for the blind

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 30a (as inserted by section 2 of the Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1962), the following section:

“30b

Notwithstanding anything in any Act or regulations or bylaw prohibiting or regulating the entry of dogs, any blind person accompanied by a guide dog (being a dog certified by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind as being a trained guide dog) may enter and remain—

“(a)

In any eatinghouse registered under regulations made pursuant to section 120 of the Health Act 1956; or

“(b)

In any public place to which the general public has access, either as of right or on payment of a fee; or

“(c)

On any form of public transport (including any public transport operated by the New Zealand Government Railways Department)—

subject to compliance by that blind person with any reasonable conditions imposed by the occupier or person having control of the eatinghouse or public place or, as the case may be, the person operating that public transport.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

Dogs Registration Amendment Act 1973