Otago Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 22

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✨ Legislative Ordinance



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. II.] SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1855. [No. 92.

DOG NUISANCE ORDINANCE.

In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Session II., No. 7.

Analysis.

Preamble.

  1. New Munster Ordinance, Session I, No. 11, repealed.
  2. All owners of Dogs to register them.
  3. Registry Book open for inspection.
  4. Fee for registration to be paid to Clerk to the Bench, who will supply Registration Ticket.
  5. Penalty for refusing to exhibit Registration Ticket.
  6. Penalty for having unregistered Dogs.
  7. In certain cases Dog may be destroyed.
  8. In cases of damage, not necessary to prove defendant’s knowledge of Dog’s propensity to injure.
  9. Moneys levied to be appropriated to public uses, and recovered in a summary way.

An Ordinance to abate the Dog Nuisance.

WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal the Ordinance to abate the Dog Nuisance, passed by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster and the Legislative Council thereof, in the first Session of the said Council, and numbered 11, and to make further provision in that behalf as far as regards the Province of Otago.

Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—

  1. The above recited Ordinance shall be and the same is hereby, as far as regards the Province of Otago, repealed:

  2. The owner, whether Native or European, of any Dog or Dogs six months old or upwards, shall annually, upon the last day of April, register the same in a book to be kept for that purpose by the Clerk to the Bench of Magistrates.

  3. In the Registry Book shall be entered the name and designation of the Owner, the name and description of the Dog, and the date of registration; and the Registry Book shall be open for inspection at the office of the Clerk to the Bench of Magistrates on payment of a fee of sixpence by non-official persons.

  4. For the registration of every such Dog the sum of Ten Shillings shall be paid yearly to the Clerk to the Bench of Magistrates, and the said Clerk to the Bench of Magistrates shall, in return for the Registration Fee, supply to each individual a Registration Ticket, containing the number in the Registration Book, the name of the Owner, the name and description of the Dog, and the date of registration.

  5. Any person, without reasonable cause, refusing to exhibit such Registration Ticket when required to do so by any constable or other person duly authorised to ask for the same, shall be liable in a penalty not exceeding £5, to be recovered in the manner prescribed by Section 9.

  6. Any person maintaining, or having in his following any Dog which shall have become six months old prior to the 1st day of April in any year, unregistered for three months after that date, shall be liable in a penalty of not less than Twenty Shillings, nor more than Five Pounds.



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Dog Nuisance, Ordinance, Registration, Penalty, Otago
  • W. Cargill, Superintendent