Victorian Current Acts

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 12AA

    (1)     If a court making a control order is satisfied by the evidence, on oath or by affirmation or affidavit, of a POCTA inspector that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person in respect of whom the control order is being made is holding an animal on premises, including a dwelling, in circumstances that would be in contravention of the proposed order, the court may, by order, authorise the inspector—

        (a)     to enter the premises; and

        (b)     to search for and seize the animal; and

        (c)     to dispose of the animal in accordance with Division 6 of Part 2A.

    (2)     Part 2A applies to an order under subsection (1) as if it were a search warrant for the animal issued under section 24G.

S. 12AB inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 8.