Legal Info
NT - Legal
Regulation 4 and Schedule 1 of the Animal Welfare Regulations allow for the use of electric shock collars in the course of training a dog (excluding collars operated by a remote-control device).
QLD - Legal
All Shock Collars are Legal for use in Queensland
TAS - Legal
Animal Welfare Act 1993 (As long as there is no pain to the animal)
VIC - Legal
Subject to exemptions under Reg 7E(2)
Permitted under prescribed circumstances Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations 1997 (Reg 7E(2)). See www.dpi.vic.gov.au/animalwelfare for details.
WA - Legal
Animal Welfare (General ) Regulations 2003
ACT - Illegal
Animal Welfare Act
SA - Illegal
Animal Welfare Act
NSW - Illegal
Section 16 of the Act, Section 13 and Schedule 1 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (General) Regulation 1996 and Schedule 1
One exception to the rule is electric collars associated with invisible boundaries. These are not illegal provided the canine invisible boundary is used to confine dogs, but only used inside a fence through which dogs cannot pass and that is not less than 1.5 metres high.
Please Note: Pet-Tech Australia takes No legal liability in the use of any of our training collars.
If you live in a State that they are illegal you agree in taking full responsibility of your actions in purchasing/using our product against the stated law above. Purchase at your own risk of prosecution for not following above guidelines.
Contact us
Proudly Australian
Pet-Tech is a Proud Australian family-owned business based in Geelong specialising in training collars for dogs.
We supply 2 main categories of collars - bark activated, and remote controlled and only stock products that we have tested and stand behind.
We also supply one of Australia's only dual purpose remote training + automatic bark control collars - the 2-in-1 click here
We are a family of dog lovers - all the dogs pictured throughout the website are our dogs Murray, Rufus, Cooper, Rosie & Atlas (left to right above).
If you have any questions just reach out through the chat box below, or email us at info@pet-tech.com.au