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Dog Control Act 1996

Miscellaneous provisions

75: Disability assist dogs

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"Dogs that help people with disabilities are allowed in public places and some buildings."

If you have a disability assist dog, it can go with you into certain places. Your dog can enter premises registered under section 120 of the Health Act 1956 and public places. You can also take your dog into these places if you are training it to assist someone with a disability. When you take your dog into these places, you must follow any reasonable rules the person in charge of the place gives you. This means that even if there are rules that normally do not allow dogs in these places, your disability assist dog is allowed to enter.

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75Disability assist dogs

  1. Any disability assist dog accompanying and assisting a person with a disability, or accompanying a person genuinely engaged in the dog's training, may enter and remain—

  2. in any premises registered under regulations made under section 120 of the Health Act 1956; or
    1. in any public place.

      1. However, the person whom the dog is accompanying must comply with any reasonable conditions imposed by the occupier or person controlling the premises or place in relation to the entry or presence of the dog.

      2. This section overrides any enactment prohibiting or regulating the entry or presence of dogs in relation to the premises and places referred to in subsection (1).

      Notes
      • Section 75: substituted, on , by section 26 of the Dog Control Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 23).
      • Section 75(3): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).