23AInformation required when racing greyhounds or cats are advertised for sale or for giving away

23A Information required when racing greyhounds or cats are advertised for sale or for giving away

23A Information required when racing greyhounds or cats are advertised for sale or for giving away

(1) A person must not advertise a racing greyhound or regulated cat as being available for sale, to be given away, or to be transferred by any other means, unless the advertisement includes at least one of the following—

(a) the microchip identification number allocated to the microchip implanted in the animal—

(i) in connection with the identification of the animal for the purposes of section 8 of the Companion Animals Act 1998, or

(ii) in compliance with the greyhound racing rules,

(b) the breeder identification number of the person, being—

(i) the breeder identification number of the person within the meaning of the Companion Animals Act 1998, Part 9, or

(ii) the number allocated to the person at the time of registration under the greyhound racing rules of the animal from whose litter the racing greyhound being advertised was born,

(c) in the case where the racing greyhound or regulated cat is being sold or given away by an organisation that is, at the time the advertisement is made, a rehoming organisation (within the meaning of the Companion Animals Act 1998)—the rehoming organisation number allocated to the organisation under section 83N of that Act.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

Note.

In order to comply with the requirements of this section, a person who advertises a racing greyhound or regulated cat must either obtain a breeder identification number or a rehoming organisation number, or have the animal microchipped (in which case the advertisement may include the microchip number). In the case of a racing greyhound or regulated cat that has not been born yet, the owner must have a breeder identification number or a rehoming organisation number.

(2) A person who, when advertising a racing greyhound or regulated cat for sale, or when doing something in relation to that advertising, gives a microchip identification number, breeder identification number or rehoming organisation number that the person knows, or ought reasonably to have known, is false is guilty of an offence.