New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 50

50 Ancillary orders to enable destruction order to be carried out

(1) A Court may, if it makes a destruction order that a dog be destroyed by some person authorised by the Court, require the owner of the dog to take, within such period as is specified in the destruction order, such action as is, in the opinion of the Court, necessary to enable the destruction order to be carried out.

(2) The Court may also make an order for the payment of any costs incurred in destroying the dog.

(3) The owner of a dog who does not comply with an order under this section is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.