Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 9

9 Who is an owner of a cat or dog

(1) Each person as follows is an
"owner" of a cat or dog—

(a) a person who is—

(i) the registered owner of the dog; or

(ii) if a local government makes a local law requiring cats to be registered—identified as the owner of the cat under the local law;

(b) a person who owns the cat or dog, in the sense of it being the person’s personal property;

(c) a person who usually keeps the cat or dog, including through an agent, employee or anyone else;

(d) if a person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) is a child—a parent or guardian of the child.

(2) For subsection (1) (c) , a person does not usually keep a cat or dog—

(a) merely because the person occupies a place at which the cat or dog is kept if someone else who is an adult and lives at the place keeps it; or

(b) if the person keeps the cat or dog as an employee of someone else and the person is acting within the scope of the employment; or

(c) merely because the person is an inspector under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 or is performing functions, or exercising powers, in that capacity under that Act.

(3) If a person owns a female cat or dog and the female has offspring, the person is taken to be the offspring’s
"owner" immediately after its birth.