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    • Blue-green algae blooms
    • Coasts and Coastal Vegetation
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Animal Registration

  • New animal registration

  • Renew animal registration

  • Cancel animal registration

  • Request Replacement Registration Tag

  • Update your animal details

  • Update your details


 

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IMPORTANT NOTE:  Under Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008, only people over the age of 18 can be considered the Legal Owner of the animal.  Therefore, Council will not accept any Animal Registration Application where the person is under the age of 18. 

To update other animal details please email Council info@gladstone.qld.gov.au and include the relevant information.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are changing address and your cat or dog has been microchipped, you must also advise your microchip registry. Council does not hold details relating to the microchipping of your animal other than the chip number itself.

Notification of changes to animal registration details and/or your contact details must be submitted to Council within seven days of the changed information occurring. 


Gladstone Regional Council animal registration period is from 1 November to 31 October annually. Renewal notices are issued to registered pet owners each year, generally at the beginning of October.  

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Why register your cat or dog?
Legislation and Local Laws
Animal inspection program
Animal registration fees
Registration refunds
Forms

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In person

You can visit any Council Office or Rural Transaction Centre to make the payment. Payment is accepted at all centres in the form of:

  • Cash
  • EFTPOS
  • Credit card (AMEX accepted)
  • Cheque or money order
By mail

Please post your cheque, money order payments or credit card slip with your registration application form or remittance slip from your registration renewal notice to:

Gladstone Regional Council
PO Box 29
Gladstone Qld 4680

BPAY (animal registration renewals only)

Use the biller code and reference number that appears on your registration renewal notice

Once payment is received, your animal registration tag will be mailed to you within 21 days.

Why register your cat or dog?

It is a Queensland Government requirement that dogs and cats aged 12 weeks and over must be registered and microchipped.  Additionally, all dogs and cats born after April 2009 are required to be microchipped and their microchip details updated with Council.

Registering your dog and cat and ensuring their contact details are kept up to date improves their chances of being safely returned to you if they are lost.

Two dogs and/or two cats can be kept on an allotment in a designated town area.  Approval is required for the keeping of more than two dogs or cats in a designated town area.  

Premises which are multi-residential (i.e. units) only one dog is permitted unless a Keeping More Than Allowable application has been approved by Council.

Guide dogs and working dogs by assessment ONLY may qualify for free registration and be exempt from mandatory microchipping. You may also be exempt from microchipping if you are able to supply Council with a Veterinary Certificate indicating that your pet’s health may be compromised if microchipped. 

Responsible pet ownership

Legislation and Local Laws

Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008
Local Law no. 2 (Animal Management) 2011   Subordinate Local Law no. 2 (Animal Management) 2011

Animal inspection program

Council undertakes an animal inspection program annually during which Local Law Officers inspect properties for unregistered animals.  

The program generally operates in the first half of the calendar year for a period of six calendar months. 

Council Local Law Enforcement Officers conduct house to house visitations to determine if animals are being kept and if these animals are registered. 

In addition, the program targets those premises of owners that had an animal registered in the previous financial year and a renewal of registration was not made for the current period. This year, Council Officers are also ensuring full compliance with microchipping requirements of the Act. If your animals were born after 10 April 2009, they must be implanted with a prescribed permanent identification device PPID (microchip) and the details provided to Council.

Council advises that it is the responsibility of the animal owner to notify Council of any change of address or animal details.

Council officers carry out inspections of properties and yards in the following urban and rural areas: Agnes Water, Aldoga, Ambrose, Baffle Creek, Bangalee, Barney Point, Beecher, Benaraby, Berajondo, Bororen, Boyne Island, Boyne Valley, Boynedale, Burua, Callemondah, Calliope, Captain Creek, Clinton, Colosseum, Darts Creek, Deepwater, Gladstone, Glen Eden, Iveragh, Kin Kora, Kirkwood, Lowmead, Miriam Vale, Mount Larcom, New Auckland, Raglan, River Ranch, Rodds Bay, Rosedale, Round Hill, Rules Beach, Seventeen Seventy, South Gladstone, South Trees, Sun Valley, Tablelands, Tannum Sands, Taragoola, Targinnie, Telina, The Narrows, Toolooa, Turkey Beach, West Gladstone, Wooderson, Wurdong Heights, Yarwun.

All Council officers and workers, who need to enter a property, display identification cards and advise the property owner of the reason for the visit/inspection.

Council has the authority to fine pet owners for an unregistered animal (dog) and/or failing to ensure an animal is implanted with a PPID (microchip), as per our Code of Offences. Further failure to register after this will result in an increased fine and an officer will enter the property under a Warrant signed by a Magistrate to seize and impound the animal/s at the owner’s expense until the animal is registered.

Council officers have the authority to enter properties to conduct those inspections under the Animal Management Act (cats and dogs) 2008 provisions, General Powers to Enter Places, Sec 111 1 (h)(i).

The animal inspection program assists in the collection of statistical data to provide an accurate record of the number of animals in the area and is a method of identifying lost pets so they can be reunited with their owners.

Animal registration fees

The animal registration fee structure includes incentives for responsible pet owners that have desexed or microchipped their pet.  A discounted fee applies to pet owners that hold a current pension concession card or Veterans' Affairs Repatriation Health card. Proof is required to ensure you are entitled to the discounted fee.  

Fees and charges Pensioners

Registration refunds

A refund of fifty percent of the registration fee can be requested if your cat or dog is deceased or if you leave the Gladstone Regional Council area within the first six months of the registration period (Prior to May 01). Please complete the Request for refund fee form and submit to Council. If the reason for the refund is due to your pet being deceased, proof by way of a Vet Certificate or Statutory Declaration is required.

No refund applications will be reviewed following May 1 of each calendar year. Refunded monies will only be paid direct to your bank account. No cheques will be issued for refunds. Council does not refund for animal registration fees paid in past registration years.

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Desexing vounchers

Discount Dog De-Sexing Program

Vouchers available from 18 Jan-26 Feb at Council offices for pet owners with animals registered in the Gladstone Region. For more information call GARG 0497 292 318

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Gladstone Regional Council would like to acknowledge the Byellee, Gooreng Gooreng, Gurang and Taribelang Bunda people who are the traditional custodians of this land. Gladstone Regional Council would also like to pay respect to Elders both past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Learn more about Council's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

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