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. 

Please contact us on (04) 527-2169 if you would like more information.
 
Scroll down or use the following links for more information on:

Dog Registration - Information and Application Form

Policies, Fees and Charges

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 - Information

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 from 1 July every year.  Penalties are applied on 1 August. 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

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 527-2169.  You will be quoted the correct amount to pay, then you can post in the completed form with the correct payment amount.   Dog Registration Information Guide - including Classes and Fee Scale  (PDF, 486K) Annual Dog Registration - 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011  (PDF, 263K) 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 2009 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 Note: Documents on this page are presented in Adobe PDF format and will open in a new window.  Please be patient as they can take up to 30 seconds to load properly. If you have a problem opening them, you may need to download an updated viewer which is available free from Adobe.