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1. Providing for the registration of dogs;

2. Specifying areas within which it shall be an offence (unless the excreta are removed) for any person liable for the control of a dog to permit that dog to excrete on any street or public place or on any land without the consent of the occupier;

 3. Requiring that in specified areas a portion of the premises where a dog is kept must be fenced in a manner capable of confining the dog;

 4. Providing for the establishment and maintenance of dog management facilities and other services and facilities necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act;

 5. Providing for the detention, maintenance, care and release or disposal of dogs seized;

 6.  Providing for the licensing, regulating, construction, use, and inspection of approved kennel establishments.

A local government may make local laws:

• (a) for its district and any other area that is to be regarded, for the purposes of this Act, as being within that district; 
• (b) in accordance with Subdivision 2 of Division 2 of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 1995; and 
• (c) for the purposes permitted by section 51 of the Dog Act 1976

Any person authorised by the local government or a member of the Western Australian Police Force.