Dog Act 1976

On receiving an application for the grant of a dog supply approval, the CEO is to grant or refuse to grant the dog supply approval.

The CEO may refuse to grant a dog supply approval only if the CEO is satisfied that at least one of the following applies —

the applicant is a convicted person;

in the case of an applicant who purports to conduct refuge operations — there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the applicant is not conducting genuine refuge operations;

the dog management facility does not, or the facilities that the applicant uses to keep dogs for the purposes of the refuge operations do not, meet the requirements of any relevant written law;

a local government objects to the grant of the approval;

a circumstance prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.

The approval is subject to any conditions the CEO —

considers necessary or desirable to impose; and

specifies in the approval.

The CEO may, at any time by written notice to the holder of the approval, amend or revoke the conditions, or impose new conditions, on the approval.

A dog supply approval remains in force unless and until it is cancelled in accordance with section 38Q.