Bylaws

   20. Dog control bylaws---(1) Any territorial authority may, in
 accordance with the Local Government Act 1974, make bylaws for all or
 any of the following purposes:
   (a) Prohibiting dogs, whether under control or not, from specified
         public places:
   (b) Requiring dogs, other than working dogs, to be controlled on a
         leash in specified public places, or in public places in
         specified areas or parts of the district:
   (c) Regulating and controlling dogs in any other public place:
   (d) Designating specified areas as dog exercise areas:
   (e) Prescribing minimum standards for the accommodation of dogs:
   (f) Limiting the number of dogs that may be kept on any land or
         premises:
   (g) Requiring dogs in its district to be tied up or otherwise confined
         during a specified period commencing not earlier than half an
         hour after sunset, and ending not later than half an hour before
         sunrise:
   (h) Requiring the owner of any dog that defecates in a public place or
         on land or premises other than that occupied by the owner to
         immediately remove the faeces:
   (i) Requiring any bitch to be confined but adequately exercised while
         in season:
   (j) Providing for the impounding of dogs, whether or not they are
         wearing a collar having the proper label or disc attached, that
         are found at large in breach of any bylaw made by the
         territorial authority under this or any other Act:
   (k) Requiring the owner of any dog (being a dog that, on a number of
         occasions, has not been kept under control) to cause that dog to
         be neutered (whether or not the owner of the dog has been
         convicted of an offence against section 53 of this Act):
   (l) Any other purpose that from time to time is, in the opinion of the
         territorial authority, necessary or desirable to further the
         control of dogs.

   (2) Nothing in this section shall authorise the making of any bylaw
 conferring any power of entry onto any land or premises without the
 consent of the occupier.

   (3) No bylaw authorised by any of the provisions of paragraphs (a) to
 (d) of subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in respect of
 any land for the time being included in---
   (a) A controlled dog area or open dog area under section 26ZS of the
         Conservation Act 1987; or
   (b) A national park constituted under the National Parks Act 1980.

   (4) Bylaws authorised by this section shall be made in accordance with
 the Local Government Act 1974 and shall be deemed to have been made
 under that Act.

   (5) Every person who commits a breach of any bylaw authorised by this
 section commits an offence and is liable to the penalties prescribed by
 section 683 of the Local Government Act 1974, which section shall apply
 accordingly with all necessary modifications.

   (6) Notwithstanding section 7 of this Act, no joint standing or
 special committee that has had conferred upon it the functions, duties,
 and powers of territorial authorities under this Act shall have the
 power to make any bylaw; and the territorial authorities that so
 conferred their functions, duties, and powers under this Act shall
 retain the power to make bylaws in accordance with this section.
     Cf. 1982, No. 42, s. 63