Western Australian Current Acts

CAT ACT 2011 - SECT 74

74 .         Additional court orders

        (1)         If —

            (a)         a court convicts a person of an offence against this Act; and

            (b)         the person has previously been convicted of 2 or more offences against this Act,

                the court may, in addition to imposing any other penalty imposed under this Act, order —

            (c)         that the person is banned from owning or keeping a cat permanently or for the period specified in the order; or

            (d)         that, despite any other provision of this Act, the person is to take immediate action to ensure that any, or all, cats owned by the person, as is specified in the order, are —

                  (i)         microchipped; or

                  (ii)         sterilised,

                or both.

        (2)         A court that makes an order under this section is to ensure that a copy of the order is provided to the local government for the district in which the person subject to the order lives.

        (3)         An order under this section may be enforced as if it were a judgment of the court.