CHAPTER 247
CONTROL OF DOGS ACT

Arrangement of Sections

   Section

   1.   Short title

   2.   Interpretation

   3.   Regulations

   4.   Fabrication of certificate or badge

AN ACT

to amend and consolidate the law relating to the registration and control of dogs and the prevention of rabies; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

[15th March, 1929]

Act 17 of 1929,

Act 6 of 1940,

Act 3 of 1953,

Act 69 of 1965,

Act 13 of 1994.

GN 319 of 1964,

GN 497 of 1964.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Control of Dogs Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“dog”, other than in regulations dealing only with registration, includes any tame or partly tame carnivorous animal in captivity.

3. Regulations

The Minister may, from time to time by statutory instrument, make, alter and repeal regulations—

      (a)   to prohibit or regulate the introduction of dogs into Zambia from all or any of the adjacent countries and to authorise the destruction of any dogs unlawfully introduced into Zambia;

      (b)   to prohibit or regulate the removal of dogs from any place to any other place within Zambia;

      (c)   to authorise or require the control, isolation, inoculation, muzzling or destruction of any dogs within Zambia or any part thereof and to prescribe the manner in which the carcasses of any dogs so destroyed as aforesaid shall be dealt with or disposed of;

      (d)   to prescribe the manner in which and by whom and to whom notice of the fact shall be given if any dog is suspected of suffering from rabies;