New Zealand Acts

DOG CONTROL ACT 1996 - SECT 68

68 Pound fees

1 Any territorial authority may from time to time set reasonable poundage fees and reasonable fees for the following matters:

a) the seizure of dogs by dog control officers or dog rangers under this Act:

b) the sustenance of any dog impounded under this Act:

c) the destruction of any dog impounded under this Act.

2 The amount of any fee referred to in subsection (1) shall be such as may from time to time be fixed by resolution of the territorial authority, which resolution shall be publicly notified, at least 14 days before the resolution comes into effect, in a newspaper circulating in the district of the territorial authority.

3 In setting poundage fees under subsection (1), the territorial authority may—

a) set different fees for registered and unregistered dogs:

b) set a graduated scale of fees for the repeated impounding of the same dog.

4 Any fee fixed under this section shall, if so required by the territorial authority, be paid before the dog is released from the pound.

Note: 1982 No 42 s 65