Regulatory Functions

Objective

  • To plan and regulate the orderly arrangement and use of land in the Gilgandra township, villages and rural areas to promote the improvement of community life and the environment in which residents live.
  • To ensure a clean, safe and healthy living environment for both present and future residents.
  • To respond to community requests on matters relevant to the function and where necessary enforce the requirements of various acts, regulations and policies.

Companion Animal Microchipping and Registration

 

 Microchipping and Registration is a two step process that requires cat and dog owners to:

  1. Have their animals implanted with a microchip by the time they are 12 weeks of age, at point of sale, or change of ownership (whichever occurs first)
  2. Register their animals with the NSW local council by six months of age.

 

Fines of $165.00 per animal apply for each offence.  Therefore, to avoid fines being issued, Council encourages the registration of all cats and dogs.

 

Working Dogs in NSW

 

A working dog is a dog used primarily for the purpose of droving, tending, working or protecting stock, and includes a dog being trained as a working dog.

Hunting dogs and guard dogs do not have any special status as working dogs under the Companion Animals Act.  Just because an animal is kept for purposes other than that of a pet, does not necessarily mean it is a “working dog”.

Under the Companion Animals Act, dogs that meet the definition of a “working dog” are exempt from microchipping and registering when:

  • the working dog resides on land defined and rated as farmland under the Local Government Act 1993, or
  • the working dog is kept in the Western Division of NSW, being not within a local government area.


All other working dogs MUST be microchipped and registered.  However, a nil dollar (free) registration fee applies.  All working dogs are exempt from wearing a collar and tag while actively working on their owner’s property.

The exemption from micropchipping and lifetime registration for working dogs may be lost in the following circumstances:

  • If the dog is seized and impounded
  • If the dog is declared dangerous
  • If the dog is the subject of a nuisance order
  • If the dog ceases to be a working dog


The lifetime registration fees are set by the legislation, not councils, as follows:

 

CURRENT LIFETIME REGISTRATION  PRICES 


Desexed Cat or Dog

 $40 plus Microchipping fee

 

Desexed Cat or Dog owned by Pensioners

 $15 plus Microchipping fee

 

A certificate from your vet confirming your pet is desexed will be required

 

Entire (undesexed) cat or dog

 $150 plus Microchipping fee

 

Entire Cat or dog owned by a registered breeder

 $40 plus Microchipping fee

 

Assistance Dogs     

Free

 

 

 

Please note that the annual registration system ceased September 30, 2002

 

For all enquiries please phone the Ranger on 6817 8800 (follow the prompts after hours)

 

 

 

Download a brochure on Restricted and dangerous dogs.

For further information, visit the Department's website:

http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/dlg_InformationIndex.asp?mi=9&ml=1&areaindex=CA&index=301

 

Contact details
Gilgandra Shire Council
council@gilgandra.nsw.gov.au