Person conducting relevant pet shop business to keep records relating to source of dogs
38K Person conducting relevant pet shop business to keep records relating to source of dogs
In this section —
relevant dog, in relation to a person who conducts a relevant pet shop business, means each of the following —
a dog kept for the purposes of the relevant pet shop business;
a dog that is supplied or offered for supply in the course of the relevant pet shop business.
A person who conducts a relevant pet shop business must keep, in relation to each relevant dog, a record that —
contains the prescribed information about the dog, including information about the person who supplied the dog to the relevant pet shop business; and
includes any evidence necessary to enable the information in the record to be verified.
The person must keep the record, even if the person ceases to conduct the relevant pet shop business —
in the prescribed way, if any; and
until —
in relation to a dog kept for the purposes of the relevant pet shop business — the end of the period of 5 years after the day on which the relevant dog ceased being kept for the purposes of the relevant pet shop business; and
in relation to a dog that is supplied or offered for supply in the course of the relevant pet shop business — the end of the period of 5 years after the day on which the dog is supplied or first offered for supply.
If the regulations prescribe a time within which a record referred to in subsection (2) must be made, the record must be made within that time.
A person who fails to comply with this section commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.
[Section 38K inserted: No. 29 of 2021 s. 32.]
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed information
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