Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979
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23C Definitions
23C Definitions
In this part—
dog does not include a racing greyhound.
exempt working dog means an adult dog—
(a) that is a working dog, and
(b) that is ordinarily kept on land—
(i) in a part of the Western Division that is not within a local government area, or
(ii) categorised as farmland for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1993, Chapter 15, Part 3, and
(c) if the dog becomes pregnant—whose offspring born from the pregnancy are intended to be working dogs that will ordinarily be kept on—
(i) the land on which the offspring were born, or
(ii) land owned or occupied by the person in charge of the adult dog when the offspring were born.
Western Division has the same meaning as in the Crown Land Management Act 2016.
s 23C: Ins 2024 No 85, Sch 1[14].