For community safety, there are rules for certain categories of dog considered higher risk:
- Dangerous dogs: Any breed declared dangerous by a council due to behaviour such as causing serious injury to a person or another animal.
- Restricted breed dogs: Any dog belonging to a breed in the Dog Control Act as restricted.
Owners of dangerous or restricted breed dogs must comply with additional requirements, which may include:
- mandatory desexing and microchipping
- standards for enclosures and warning signs
- mandatory muzzling in public.
Find out more about dangerous and restricted breed dogs.
