New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 12A

12A Preventing dog from escaping

(1) The owner of a dog must take all reasonable precautions to prevent the dog from escaping from the property on which it is being kept.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) 8 penalty units except in the case of a dangerous, menacing or restricted dog, or

(b) 50 penalty units in the case of a dangerous, menacing or restricted dog.

(1A) The regulations may, for the purposes of this section, specify what constitutes or does not constitute reasonable precautions to prevent a dog from escaping.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),
"owner" of a dog includes the person who is for the time being in charge of the dog.