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COMPANION ANIMALS ACT 1998 - SECT 52B
Prohibition on accepting ownership of dangerous or menacing dog or proposed dangerous or menacing dog
(1) A person who accepts ownership of a dangerous or menacing dog or proposed
dangerous or menacing dog is guilty of an offence. : Maximum penalty--150
penalty units.
(2) A person does not commit an offence under this section--
(a) by reason only of taking delivery of, or detaining, a dog under Part 7 or
as the consequence of a dog being surrendered to a council pound or an
approved animal welfare organisation, or
(b) if the person does not know, or
could not reasonably be expected to know, that the dog was a dangerous or
menacing dog or proposed dangerous or menacing dog.
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