Tauranga City Council

Notes On Registration

You must register your dog with Tauranga City Council if it is ordinarily kept in the Tauranga City Council area.

All dogs over the age of 3 months must be registered.

It is an offence to keep a dog older than 3 months, unregistered. Penalty - up to $3,000.

Complete a dog registration form and post it, together with the correct fee, to Animal Services Unit, Tauranga City Council, Private Bag, Tauranga or deliver it to Tauranga City Council, Willow Street, Tauranga or Mount Maunganui Library, Mount Maunganui.

It is an offence to make a false written statement when registering a dog. Penalty - up to $3,000.

Replacement labels or discs may be obtained from Council if the current disc has been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.

Any dog not wearing a collar, having a current registration label or disc attached is considered to be unregistered.

If you change ownership of your dog, you and the new owner must advise Council, in writing within 14 days. You must provide the residential address of the new owner and the address at which the dog will be kept. It is an offence to not comply with this requirement. Penalty- up to $500.

If you change address within the city, you must advise Council of your new address, in writing within 14 days.

If any dog is transferred to and kept in another District for one month or more, you must give written notice within 6 weeks to both councils advising the address at which the dog will be kept.

It is an offence not to comply with this requirement. Penalty - up to $500.

Pro-rata fees apply for dogs registered after 1st August in any registration year, provided that the dog should not have been registered before 1 August.

The registration fees include goods and services tax.

If any dog over the age of 3 months is found not wearing a collar with a current registration label or disc attached, the dog may be seized and impounded.

You are entitled to a refund should your dog die during a registration year. The refund applies from the date of written application and is for all of the full remaining months of that registration year.