DOGS AND CATS REGULATIONS

DOGS AND CATS REGULATIONS

DOGS AND CATS REGULATIONS

ARRAGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

Regulation page

1. Citation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 2

2. Interpretation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 2

3. Dogs to be licensed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 2

4. Fees for dog licences ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 3

5. Issue and validity of licences ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 3

6. Dogs to be inoculated once every 3 years ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 3

7. No dog licence unless dog is tattooed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 3

8. Inoculated dogs to be tattooed ... ... ... ... ... 1 . ... ... ... A 3

9. Dog and cat bites to be reported to police ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 3

10. Duty to report to police rabies or suspected rabies of dog or cat ... ... A 4

11. Duty in cases of suspected rabies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 4

12. Importation of dog or cat without veterinary officer's permit prohibited ... A 4

13. Certain certificate required before issue of import permit ... ... ... ... A 4

14. Veterinary officer may dispense with certificate in certain cases ... ... A 4

15. Duty to report arrival of dog or cat in waters of Colony ... ... ... ... A 4

16. Duty of master to call for quarantine or import permit ... ... ... ... A 5

17. Duty of owners, charterers, agents and captain in the event of dogs and

cats arriving by aircraft ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... AS

18. Dogs and cats to go to quarantine station when permit issued ... ... ... AS

19. Dogs not to be allowed out except under control, absolute liability of

owner ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 5

20. Discretion of veterinary officer ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... AS

21. Veterinary officer may impose conditions ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A6

22. Slaughter of dog or cat for food probibited. Onus of proof ... ... ... A 6

23. Penalty ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 6

Schedule.................................... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A6





DOGS AND CATS REGULATIONS
(Cap. 167, section 3)

[13th January, 1950.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dogs and Cats
Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

'approved observation kennels' means any place which the Governor
has by notification in the Gazette declared to be a place in which
dogs or cats may be kept for observation for the purposes of the
Ordinance and these regulations;

'licensing authority' means the Director;

'local vessel' includes any vessel from time to time in the waters of the
Colony other than ocean going ships and includes ocean going
ships if travelling exclusively between Hong Kong and ports in
China;

'quarantine station' means any place for the time being set apart under
the direction of the Governor for the quarantine of dogs or cats;

'quarantine permit' means a permit by the veterinary officer solely for
the purposes of enabling a dog or cat which is to be or which has
been imported into the Colony to be taken to a quarantine station;



'Secretary for the New Territories' has the meaning
assigned to it
by the New Territories Ordinance;

'urban areas of the New Territories' means the several areas
specified in the Schedule and as regards each particular area
means such area as delimited on a plan thereof deposited in
the office of the Secretary for the New Territories and identified
by the words 'urban areapurpoes of the Dogs and
Cats Regulations' together with the signature of the Secretary
for the New Territories.

3. No person shall keep a dog over the age of 5 months except
under and in accordance with a licence from the licensing authority:

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to any dog under the
temporary care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or
any other body recognized and approved by the licensing authority.





4. (1) Subjects to paragraph (2), the licence fee for each dog shall be
$15.

(2) No licence fee shall be payable in respect of any dog belonging
to the Government or Her Majesty's armed forces.

5. (1) Where, before the commencement of this regulation, a valid
licence exists in respect of a dog, the licence shall be deemed to have
been issued on the first day of the month next following that during
which the inoculation of the dog took place in accordance with
regulation 6 and shall be valid for a period of 3 years from that day.

(2) Where, after the commencement of this regulation, a dog is
inoculated in accordance with section 6 a licence shall be issued in
respect of that dog and shall be valid for a period of 3 years from the first
day of the month next following that during which the inoculation took
place.

6. (1) The owner or person having custody, care or control of any
dog shall cause the dog to be inoculated against rabies at the age of 5
months and thereafter at intervals not exceeding 3 years.

(2) Inoculation shall be carried out by or under the direction of such
persons or classes of person as the licensing authority shall notify in
the Gazette.

7. (1) No licence shall be issued in respect of any dog unless the
issuing officer is satisfied that an car of such dog bears a decipherable
tattooed mark or number made in accordance with regulation 8 within the
3 years prior to the issue of such licence.

(2) In this regulation, 'issuing officer' means any person appointed
by the licensing authority for the purpose of this regulation.

8. (1) On the inner surface of one ear of any dog inoculated in
accordance with regulation 6, there shall be indelibly tattooed a mark or
number referring to the month and year during which the inoculation
took place.

(2) No person other than a person authorized by the licensing
authority shall tattoo any mark or number on any dog.

9. (1) Any person having the custody, control or care of any dog or
cat which has bitten any person shall report the fact to the nearest police
station without delay and a police officer shall forthwith remove such
dog or cat to an approved observation kennel.

(2) Any such dog or cat shall be detained in an approved
observation kennel for such period as a veterinary officer may decide.





10. Any person having the custody, control or care of any dog or
cat which has or may reasonably be suspected of having rabies, or of
any dog or cat which has been or may reasonably be suspected of
having been in contact with any case of rabies or suspected rabies, shall
report the fact to the nearest police station without delay.

11. Any person having the custody, control or care of any dog or
cat which has or is suspected of having rabies, or which is suspected of
having been in contact with a case of rabies or suspected rabies, shall
comply with all the requirements of the veterinary officer with regard
thereto.

12. No owner or person having the custody, control or care of any
dog or cat shall allow such dog or cat to be imported into the Colony, or
if already so imported by water, to be landed in the Colony, or if already
so imported by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, to be removed from the
premises of the railway, or if already so imported by air to be removed
from the airport, until he has received from the veterinary officer either a
permit to import or a quarantine permit.

13. Subject to the provisions of regulation 14, no permit to import
may be issued except on the production to the veterinary officer of

(a)a certificate to the satisfaction of the veterinary officer, dated
not more than 2 months before the dog or cat is imported or
brought into the Colony, from a duly qualified veterinary
surgeon or a medical officer of health or a British consular
authority, that for a period of 6 months immediately prior to the
date of such certificate no case of rabies has been known to
occur in any district in which such dog or cat has been; and

(b)in the case of a dog or cat imported by water, a statutory
declaration by the master of the vessel by which such dog or
cat has been imported, or by the owner if he has travelled on
the vessel with the dog or cat, that no case of rabies has
occurred on board the vessel during the voyage.

14. The veterinary officer may in his discretion, on being satisfied
that no case of rabies has occurred in the place or places where such
dog or cat has been during the period of 6 months immediately
preceding such importation, or that there is no reasonable fear of such
dog or cat having been in contact with rabies, dispense with the
certificate referred to in regulation 13(a).

15. The owners, charterers or agents of any vessel which arrives in
the waters of the Colony having on board any dog or cat consigned to
or intended for any person in the Colony shall report the arrival of such
dog or cat forthwith to the veterinary officer, giving the





name and address of the owner or consignee of such dog or cat and the
description of such dog or cat.

16. The master of any such vessel which arrives in the waters of the
Colony shall not permit any dog or cat to be removed from such vessel
until there has been produced to him a permit to import or a quarantine
permit issued by the veterinary officer in respect of such dog or cat.

17. The owners, charterers or agents of any aircraft and the captain
of any aircraft landing in the Colony shall not permit any dog or cat to be
removed from such aircraft except to a place of safe custody provided by
such owners, charterers, agents or captain within the airport until there
has been produced to him or them a permit to import or a quarantine
permit issued by the veterinary officer in respect of such dog or cat.

18. The owner or person having the custody, control or care of any
dog or cat in respect of which he has received a quarantine permit shall
at his own expense immediately after receiving such permit take such
dog or cat to a quarantine station to be detained there for such period as
the veterinary officer may prescribe.

19. (1) No dog shall be allowed to go abroad on a public
thoroughfare or on any premises abutting on any thoroughfare which
are not so enclosed as to confine such dog within the enclosed area
unless it is on the lead or is otherwise under control.

(2) A breach of this regulation shall be deemed to have occurred if
any dog is abroad as aforesaid and is not on the lead or otherwise under
control or if a dog bites any person or any other dog at a time when, and
at place at which, it is required by this regulation to be on a lead or
otherwise under control.

(3) In every such case the owner of such dog or, if the owner is
absent from the Colony, the person having the custody or care of such
dog shall be guilty of such breach, notwithstanding that such breach
occurred without his knowledge or without any default on his part and,
in the case of a dog biting a person or another dog, notwithstanding any
proof that the dog was on a lead or was otherwise under control.

(4) Any police officer or person authorized by the licensing
authority may detain any dog which is not on the lead or otherwise
under control in accordance with this regulation and may, if the dog is
not claimed by its owner or his agent within 4 days of the day on which
it was detained, destroy the dog.

20. The veterinary officer shall have absolute discretion to refuse
any permit or permission which he is authorized by these regulations to
issue or give.





21. It shall be lawful for the veterinary officer to attach any
conditions whatsoever to any permit or permission issued or given by
him under these regulations.

22. (1) No person shall slaughter any dog or cat for use as food
whether for mankind or otherwise.

(2) No person shall sell or use or permit the sale or use of the flesh
of dogs and cats for food.

(3) Any person who is found in possession of the carcass of any
dog or cat or any part thereof in such circumstances as would
reasonably give rise to a belief that such dog or cat was being or had
been slaughtered or sold or used for food in breach of this regulation
shall be guilty of an offence against paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may
be, unless he is able to satisfy a magistrate that he has not in fact
committed any breach of paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be.

23. Any person who contravenes regulation 3, 6(1), 8(2), 9(1), 10, 11,
12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 22(1) or (2) shall be liable to a fine of $5,000 and to
imprisonment for 6 months.

SCHEDULE

Cheung Chau Tai Po
Tai 0 Sha Tin
Yuen Long Sai Kung
Shek Wu Hui Tsuen Wan
Sha Tau Kok Luen Wo Market
Town
G.N.A. 10/50. G.N.A. 34/50. G.N.A. 79/51. G.N.A. 107/51. G.N.A. 71/52. G.N.A. 1/53. G.N.A. 158/54. G.N.A. 46/55. G.N.A. 48/56. G.N.A. 56/56. G.N.A. 72/57. G.N.A. 53/61. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 134/70. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 198/74. L.N. 37/78. L.N. 289/78. Citation. Interpretation. G.N.A. 56/56. L.N. 94/74. (Cap. 97.) Schedule. Dogs to be licensed. L.N. 37/78. Fees for dog licences. L.N. 37/78. Issue and validity of licences. L.N. 37/78. L.N. 189/78. Dogs to be inoculated once every 3 years. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 37/78. No dog licence unless dog is tattooed. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 37/78. Inoculated dogs to be tattooed. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 190/67. Dog and cat bites to be reported to police. Duty to report to police rabies or suspected rabies of dog or cat. Duty in cases of suspected rabies. Importation of dog or cat without veterinary officer's permit prohibited. Certain certificate required before issue of import permit. Veterinary officer may dispense with certificate in certain cases. Duty to report arrival of dog or cat in waters of Colony. Duty of master to call for quarantine or import permit. Duty of owners, characters, agents and captain in the event of dogs and cats arriving by aircraft. Dogs and cats to go to quarantine station when permit issued. Dogs not to be allowed out except under control, absolute liability of owner. G.N.A. 158/54. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 134/70. Discretion of veterinary officer. Veterinary officer may impose conditions. Slaughter of dog or cat for food prohibited. Onue of proof. Penalty. G.N.A. 79/51. G.N.A. 34/50.

G.N.A. 10/50. G.N.A. 34/50. G.N.A. 79/51. G.N.A. 107/51. G.N.A. 71/52. G.N.A. 1/53. G.N.A. 158/54. G.N.A. 46/55. G.N.A. 48/56. G.N.A. 56/56. G.N.A. 72/57. G.N.A. 53/61. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 134/70. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 198/74. L.N. 37/78. L.N. 289/78. Citation. Interpretation. G.N.A. 56/56. L.N. 94/74. (Cap. 97.) Schedule. Dogs to be licensed. L.N. 37/78. Fees for dog licences. L.N. 37/78. Issue and validity of licences. L.N. 37/78. L.N. 189/78. Dogs to be inoculated once every 3 years. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 37/78. No dog licence unless dog is tattooed. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 37/78. Inoculated dogs to be tattooed. G.N.A. 46/55. L.N. 190/67. Dog and cat bites to be reported to police. Duty to report to police rabies or suspected rabies of dog or cat. Duty in cases of suspected rabies. Importation of dog or cat without veterinary officer's permit prohibited. Certain certificate required before issue of import permit. Veterinary officer may dispense with certificate in certain cases. Duty to report arrival of dog or cat in waters of Colony. Duty of master to call for quarantine or import permit. Duty of owners, characters, agents and captain in the event of dogs and cats arriving by aircraft. Dogs and cats to go to quarantine station when permit issued. Dogs not to be allowed out except under control, absolute liability of owner. G.N.A. 158/54. L.N. 190/67. L.N. 134/70. Discretion of veterinary officer. Veterinary officer may impose conditions. Slaughter of dog or cat for food prohibited. Onue of proof. Penalty. G.N.A. 79/51. G.N.A. 34/50.

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