Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 75

75 Deciding application

(1) The relevant local government must either grant or refuse a permit application within 21 days after the later of the following to happen—

(a) the making of the application;

(b) it receives all necessary information to decide the application.

(2) The local government must refuse the application if—

(a) the applicant—

(i) is a child; or

(ii) has been convicted of an offence against this chapter and the conviction is not a spent conviction; or

(b) it is not satisfied the place for which the application is made has a detached house on it in which someone usually lives; or

(c) it is satisfied the restricted dog the subject of the application is 9 months or older and has not been desexed.

(3) However, subsection (2) (c) does not apply if the local government is satisfied desexing is likely to be a serious risk to the health of the dog.

(4) A regulation may provide that the application must be refused in another stated circumstance.

(5) If the local government decides to grant the application, it may impose a condition provided for under a regulation made under section 80 (2) .