Council Services

Animal Control

Council seeks to control dog nuisances and wandering stock within the City.  To achieve this Council provides an impounding service, investigates dog attacks and responds to dog and other animal related complaints.

If your dog is missing please phone (04) 527-2169 or check our list of Impounded Dogs.
 

Notes:

1. Council no longer has a pound facility in Mangaroa, impounded dogs are now boarded in Hutt City.
2. Law requires all dogs to be registered on a national database and microchipped for identification purposes and for owners to ensure their dogs are not a menace to other members of the public.

Dog Registration

All dog owners must register their dog(s) with the Council in whose city or district the dog is ordinarily kept, and must renew their dog(s) registration with Council by 1st July every year.

If you are new to Upper Hutt, have a new or unregistered dog, you must register your dog with Council immediately or before the dog reaches 3 months of age.

If your dog is currently registered with another Council, you MUST complete a transfer of the old council's tag to an Upper Hutt City Council tag.  You can do this by bringing the other Council's tag in to the Council building, filling in a registration form and you will be issued an Upper Hutt City Council registration tag.  There is no charge to do this.

If your dog is already registered with us, you'll receive a registration pack in the mail in June.

Dog Registration Forms

Use the following links to download the Annual Dog Registration and Information Guide.

PLEASE NOTE: If you get a new dog during the registration year, you will not have to pay a full years registration fee.  You will only be required to pay a pro-rata amount. To ensure you are not paying too much, please phone the Animal Control Office during business hours on (04) 527-2126.  You will be quoted the correct amount to pay, then you can post in the completed form with the correct payment amount.

Annual Dog Registration - 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 (pdf, 619K)

Dog Registration Information Guide - includes Classes and Fee Scale  (pdf, 695K)

Please return the completed form with payment, by mail or in person to:

Civic Administration Building 838-842 Fergusson Drive Upper Hutt Private Bag 907 Upper Hutt 5140

Your dog's registration disc will be posted to you - keep your receipt until you receive it.  You must ensure that the registration disc is attached to a collar worn on the neck of the dog you registered.

Penalties

On 1st August, penalties will be applied to all unregistered dogs over 3 months of age.  All owners found with dogs still unregistered after 1 September 2008 will be issued with a $300 infringement notice for keeping an unregistered dog.

Failure to register a dog may also result in the dog being seized and impounded under Section 42 of the Dog Control Act 1996.

Policies, Fees and Charges

Council's Dog Control Policy (pdf 837k)

Annual Report on Dog Control Policy and Practises (pdf 33k)

Schedule of Fees and Charges

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