Transitional provision for centralised registration system
62 Transitional provision for centralised registration system
In this section —
centralised registration system means the electronic database or system the CEO will be required to establish and maintain when the Dog Amendment (Stop Puppy Farming) Act 2021 section 14 comes into operation;
commencement day means the day on which the Dog Amendment (Stop Puppy Farming) Act 2021 section 14 comes into operation.
The CEO may establish and maintain the centralised registration system before the commencement day and may —
permit a local government to record in the centralised registration system any information that the local government is required under this Act to record in a register maintained by it; and
cause or permit information to be transferred from a register maintained by a local government to the centralised registration system.
If a local government records information in the centralised registration system under subsection (2)(a), or information from a register maintained by the local government is transferred to the centralised registration system under subsection (2)(b), before the commencement day the information is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be information recorded by the local government on a register maintained by the local government.
[Section 62 inserted: No. 29 of 2021 s. 44.]
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