South Australian Consolidated Acts

DOG AND CAT MANAGEMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 7

7—Dog wandering at large

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, a dog will be taken to be wandering at large while—

            (a)         the dog is in a public place (other than a park) or a private place without the consent of the occupier, and no person is exercising effective control of the dog by means of physical restraint; or

            (b)         the dog is in a park and no person is exercising effective control of the dog either—

                  (i)         by means of physical restraint; or

                  (ii)         by command, the dog being in close proximity to the person and the person being able to see the dog at all times.

        (2)         However a dog will not be taken to be wandering at large while—

            (a)         the dog is being used in the droving or tending of stock or is going to or returning from a place where it will be, or has been, so used; or

            (b)         the dog is being trained for, or participating in, an organised activity being a race, trial, class or show or in retrieving, hunting or other sporting exercise customarily involving the running of one or more dogs; or

            (c)         the dog is in a vehicle.