New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 2021 - SECT 130A

130A Restrictions on by-laws--assistance animals

(1) A by-law of an association scheme has no force or effect to the extent it would--

(a) prohibit or restrict the keeping on a lot of an assistance animal used by an owner or occupier of the lot, or

(b) restrict, or impose an unreasonable burden on a person in relation to, the use of an assistance animal on a lot or association property.

(2) A by-law of an association scheme may require a person who keeps an assistance animal on a lot to show the animal is an assistance animal by providing one of the following to the association--

(a) evidence the animal holds an accreditation referred to in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth, section 9(2)(a) or (b),

(b) a statutory declaration verifying the animal has received the training referred to in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth, section 9(2)(c),

(c) other evidence prescribed by the regulations.

(3) In this section--

"assistance animal" has the same meaning as in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth, section 9(2).