Registration

All cats and dogs, other than exempt cats and dogs, must exist registered past 6 months of age. The registration fee is a once-only payment, which covers the cat or canis familiaris for its lifetime in NSW, regardless of whatsoever changes in ownership.

You are encouraged to have your cat or domestic dog desexed before registering information technology. Having your cat or canis familiaris desexed prior to registration helps to reduce straying, fighting and assailment and antisocial behaviour, such as spraying to mark territory. It as well helps to reduce the number of unwanted pets built-in each year.

Discounted registration fees apply to desexed dogs.

Annual permits are now required for owners of not-desexed cats, restricted dog breeds, and dogs alleged to be unsafe. Please refer to the Almanac Permits section for more than data.

Registration fees are used by councils for providing fauna management related services to the community. These may include ranger services, pound facilities, domestic dog refuse bins, educational and other companion animal-related activities.

If y'all fail to register your true cat or canis familiaris when required to do so you may be issued with a stock-still penalty detect of $330, or a courtroom may award a maximum punishment of up to $5500 or upwardly to $6,500 if your dog is a restricted domestic dog or a declared dangerous or menacing dog.

Fundamental Resource

  • Pet Registration – Fact Sheet – PDF
  • NSW Pet Registry Registration Fee Refund Policy – Oct 2017 – PDF

Forms

  • Alter of Possessor – Details – C3A Form – PDF
  • Change of Owner – Processed past Animal Welfare Organisation or Council Pound – C3B Class – PDF
  • Permanent Identification – P1A Form – PDF
  • Verification of Existing Microchip – M1 Class – PDF
  • Lifetime Registration – R2 Course – PDF
  • Order request for companion animate being identification and registration forms (vets, breeders, authorised identifiers) – PDF

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  • Microchips

    Approved microchips for use in NSW must comply with ISO:11784 and ISO:11785. ISO means International Standardisation for Organisations. A microchip scanner is used to read the brute'due south microchip number, which is usually a 15-digit unique identification number. Nonetheless, some older cats and dogs microchip identification number may comprise letters as well every bit numbers.

    An implanted microchip does non cause any ongoing pain or discomfort to your true cat or dog. The microchip does not require a battery or any maintenance and is designed to concluding the life of your pet.

    In NSW, all cats and dogs, other than exempt cats and dogs, must exist microchipped by 12 weeks of historic period or before being sold or given away, whichever happens first.

    If y'all buy a cat or domestic dog in NSW that is non microchipped, you should report this to a local council for investigation and farther action, if appropriate.

    All cats and dogs must be listed on the NSW Companion Animals Annals (the Register). Post-obit the implantation of the microchip, a Permanent Identification Grade (P1A form) is completed confirming the identification data that is to exist entered on the Register.

    The Authorised Identifier (Vet or qualified implanter) or local council enters the identification information onto the Register and problems the owner with a Certificate of Identification.

    Inbound identification information on the Register before the true cat or dog is lifetime registered helps in reuniting lost or stray animals with their owners.

    The information recorded on the Register is also used by authorised officers to enforce theCompanion Animals Human activity 1998. An authorised officer includes an authorised employee of the local council such a Ranger or whatsoever NSW Police Officer.

    Only an Authorised Identifier can microchip a cat or dog in NSW. An Authorised Identifier may be a vet or a person who has completed the relevant qualification. For case, an animal welfare system employee, a vet nurse, a pet grooming business concern operator, an employee of a pet shop or a breeder.

    Some local councils offer low cost microchipping services for residents. Contact your local council to notice out more.

    Microchipping is usually included in the purchase price of a true cat or dog. However, if yous need to microchip your true cat or canis familiaris (because someone has given you lot the brute or the animal is non microchipped), you should shop around for the best toll, as there is no set cost for microchipping.

  • What should y'all exercise if your dog and cat'south microchip number is not listed on the NSW Companion Animal Annals?

    If yous have had your cat or canis familiaris microchipped in NSW, the Authorised Identifier must either enter the information onto the NSW Companion Animals Register and issue you a Certificate of Identification, or send the data to your local council for data entry inside three days of implanting the microchip.

    The local council must enter the information onto the NSW Companion Animal Register within seven days of receipt of the information and issue you a Certificate of Identification. If you have not received your certificate or you have concerns about the accurateness of the data on the NSW Companion Animals Register, you should accept whatsoever documentation yous take to your local council.

  • How practice yous register your dog or cat?

    Regardless of how you annals your pet, you are encouraged to create a contour on the NSW Pet Registry (www.petregistry.nsw.gov.au). Having a profile and keeping your details up to date helps reunite you and your pet should y'all they go missing.

    Registering your pet has never been easier:

    Online – NSW Pet Registry

    The NSW Pet Registry website was launched in July 2016 every bit part of the Regime'southward delivery to promoting responsible pet ownership and improved animal welfare outcomes.

    The Registry allows pet owners whose animals have been microchipped to register cats and dog, update their contact details, study missing pets, transfer ownership and pay lifetime registration fees all from a figurer or mobile device.

    Over the counter – your local quango

    You can besides register your pet over the counter at your local quango.

    Pet owners seeking to register assistance animals, working dogs or dogs kept for breeding purposes will still need to carry out registration at a local council. Some eligible pensioners will also need to be assessed for eligibility by their local council.

    Over the counter and online – Service NSW

    Service NSW has been added to the list of registration agents to give pet owners an additional, convenient choice to register pets.

    Eligible pet owners can register pets with Service NSW in person at a Service NSW center or kiosk, or online using your MyServiceNSW account, which will link customers with your NSW Pet Registry account.

  • Registration fees

    New registration fees are in accordance with clause 18 of the Companion Animals Regulation 2018.

    Fee changes from i July 2021 are:

    Registration Type Registration description Previous Fee New Fee (From i July 2021)
    Dog – Desexed (by relevant age) Registration fee for an fauna desexed by the relevant desexing age $60 $66
    Domestic dog – Desexed (eligible pensioner) Desexed brute owned by an eligible pensioner $26 $27
    Dog – Desexed (sold by pound/shelter) Desexed animal sold by an eligible pound or shelter $30 $0
    Domestic dog – Not Desexed or Desexed (subsequently relevant age) Combined registration fee and additional fee for an animal not desexed by the relevant desexing historic period $216 $224
    Domestic dog – Not Desexed (non recommended) Animal with written notification from a vet that it should not exist desexed $60 $66
    Dog – Not Desexed (non recommended – pensioner) Beast owned by an eligible pensioner with written notification from a vet that it should not be desexed  – $27
    Domestic dog – Not Desexed (recognised breeder) Animal not desexed and kept past a recognised breeder for breeding purposes  $60 $66
    Dog – Working Working dog $0 $0
    Dog – Service of the State Dog in the service of the Land, for instance, a police force dog $0 $0
    Assistance Beast Assistance Animal $0 $0
    True cat – Desexed or Not Desexed Registration fee $50 $56
    True cat – Desexed (eligible pensioner) Desexed animal owned past an eligible pensioner $26 $27
    Cat – Desexed (sold by pound/shelter) Desexed animal sold by an eligible pound or shelter $25 $0
    True cat – Not Desexed (not recommended) Animal with written notification from a vet that it should not exist desexed $50 $56
    Cat – Not Desexed (not recommended – pensioner) Brute endemic by an eligible pensioner with written notification from a vet that it should non be desexed – $27
    Cat – Not Desexed (recognised breeder) Animal not desexed and kept by a recognised breeder for breeding purposes $50 $56
    Registration late fee To exist paid if registration fee has not been paid within 28 days after the date on which the animal is required to be registered $17 $18
    Allow Blazon Description Previous Fee New Fee (From i July 2021)
    Cat not desexed by four months of age – $80 $81
    Dangerous dog – $195 $197
    Restricted dog – $195 $197
    Permit tardily fee Payable if the let fee has non been paid 28 days later on the engagement on which a permit was required to ain the companion creature. $17 $18

    *An eligible pensioner includes a person in receipt of the aged pension, state of war widow pension or disability pension. If you are unsure whether you lot are an eligible pensioner, please contact your local council.

  • Exemptions from the microchipping and lifetime-registration requirement for cats and dogs in NSW

    If you ain a cat born before one July 1999 and ownership has not inverse, a working canis familiaris used for tending stock on a rural property or a greyhound currently registered under the Greyhound Racing Act 2009, you do not need to have it microchipped or registered with your local council. Nevertheless, it is recommended that you accept your true cat or canis familiaris microchipped for its protection.

    Assistance animals must exist microchipped and lifetime-registered but there is no registration fee payable.

    If action has been taken against you regarding the behaviour of your cat or canis familiaris under the Companion Animals Act 1998, any applicative exemption is lost and your cat or dog must be microchipped and registered.

    A nuisance true cat or domestic dog, a restricted dog and a declared dangerous or menacing dog, including a working canis familiaris that has been declared a dangerous canis familiaris, must be microchipped and registered.

    Whatsoever cat or dog not otherwise required to exist microchipped or registered that is taken into the custody of a quango pound or animal welfare organisation must exist microchipped and registered before being returned to its owner (even if it is less than six months old).

  • Do yous need to microchip and annals your dog or cat if you lot are moving from some other country/territory to NSW?

    If you lot are moving to NSW and are going to be hither for three months or more, you must take your cat or canis familiaris microchipped (if this has not already been done), entered on the NSW Companion Animals Register and lifetime registered with your local council. This must occur within three months of moving to NSW.

    If your true cat or dog was microchipped exterior NSW or before 1 July 1999 (when the Companion Animals Deed 1998 came into event), you will need to provide proof of microchipping to your NSW local quango. You will need to present a Verification of Existing Microchip (M1) Form completed and signed by a Vet or other Authorised Identifier and a completed Permanent Identification (P1A) Form.

    Registration in another state or territory cannot be transferred to NSW.

    Yous may as well have listed your true cat or dog on a privately-operated national microchip database. These databases are not linked to the NSW Companion Animals Register. The NSW Companion Animals Register is a NSW Regime database used to record registration information for cats and dogs that reside in NSW.

    You lot should contact the operators of any databases on which your cat or dog is listed to update your contact details on your true cat or dog's microchip record:

  • Do y'all need to microchip and register your dog or cat if you are moving to Australia?

    If you are going to alive in NSW, y'all must place and register your cat or domestic dog with your local council inside three months of your arrival.

    Cats and dogs existence imported to Commonwealth of australia must encounter Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) import conditions, including the requirement for microchipping before import to Commonwealth of australia. This is to minimise the take chances of exotic diseases being introduced into Australia.

    Australia is free from many animate being-related diseases found in other parts of the world.

    For further information on microchipping and registration requirements in NSW, contact your local council on your arrival in NSW.