New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 59

59 Person with a disability entitled to be accompanied by assistance animal

(1) A person with a disability is entitled to be accompanied by an assistance animal being used bona fide by the person to assist the person, into or onto any building or place open to or used by the public or on any public transport.

(2) The person is not guilty of an offence merely because the person takes the animal into or onto or permits the animal to enter or be in or on any such building or place or any public transport while the person is using the animal bona fide to assist the person.

(3) This section applies despite the provisions of any other Act or instrument made under an Act.