Section 38 — ANIMALS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2013

(2)

Dogs shall be licensed only in the manner prescribed before 31 January each year or on reaching the age of three months or within fourteen days after arrival in Peninsular Malaysia or within fourteen days of the cancellation of an Anti-rabies Vaccination Order made

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under section 42, whichever is the later, and such licence shall remain in force until 31 December of the year in respect of which such licensing was effected.

(3)

Dogs may be licensed at any Post Office in the State in which they are normally kept or at such other places as may be prescribed.

(4)

The Minister may prescribe the fee for the licensing of a dog.

(5)

On receipt of the prescribed fee the licensing authority shall supply the owner of the dog with a serially numbered metal badge.

(6)

The owner of every licensed dog shall provide a collar to which the badge issued in accordance with subsection (5) shall be securely fastened in such a manner as to be clearly visible when worn, and such collar and badge shall be continually worn by such licensed dog when out-of-doors, and any dog found out-of-doors and not wearing such collar and badge may be destroyed.

(7)

(a)

The proper authority may authorize in writing persons to destroy dogs in accordance with subsection (6) and such persons may enter upon and into any place, not being a dwelling house, for the purpose of enforcing that subsection:

Provided that such person shall, if so required, produce and show his written authority to the owner, occupier or person for the time being in charge of such place.

(b)

In this subsection the ‘proper authority’ means a State

Director, Mayor of a City Council or City Hall, President of a District

Council or Local Authority, General Manager of a Town Board or the

Chief Police Officer of a State.

(8)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (6) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.

(9)

The Ruler in Council or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri in Council in a State may by order declare that subsection (1) shall not apply within any specified part of such State or may exempt any person or

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any class of persons either from licensing any dog which is required by this section to be licensed or from the payment of all or any part of the fee payable in respect of such licensing.

(10)

This section shall not apply to any dog—

(a)

within any State or any part of it for so long as an

Anti-rabies Vaccination Order made under section 42 is in force within such State or any part of it; or

(b)

which is liable to be or has been registered or licensed in accordance with any other written law.

Rabies-infected areas