As the owner or person in charge of a dog, you have the following obligations and you are responsible for everything the dog does. This includes:
- registering a dog that is over the age of six months
- keeping your dog on a lead when you are walking on a road or footpath in a city or town
- ensuring that the dog does not roam and that it is contained to your property at all times unless being exercised
- restricting your dog sufficiently while it is in or on a vehicle so that it is unable to leave the vehicle or attack any person or animal outside the vehicle
- preventing your dog from attacking, biting, menacing or harassing another person(s) or animal(s)
- preventing your dog from rushing at, or chasing a moving vehicle or bicycle whilst in a public place
- making sure that a bitch on heat is confined away from public places
- cleaning up after your dog.
