Legislation / NS161
NS161PASSEDOTHERNOVA SCOTIA

Service Dog Act

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Sponsor
Introduced
Royal assent
Final vote

Legislative timeline

  1. 1st
  2. 2nd
  3. Comm.
  4. 3rd
  5. Senate
  6. Assent

Bill overview

Bill NS161, “Service Dog Act”, is a Nova Scotia bill from session assembly-62-session-2.

Its latest recorded status is “Passed”.

This overview is written automatically from the registry and vote records on this page and updates when they sync. It describes the bill's path, not its merits.

PLAIN-LANGUAGE SUMMARY

What you need to know

The Service Dog Act in Nova Scotia allows people to take their service dogs into public places, such as restaurants and stores, without being asked to leave. It also protects people from being charged with trespassing or disturbing the peace when they're with their service dogs. This means that service dogs are treated as working animals, not pets, and their owners have more freedom to go about their daily lives with their assistance animals.

AI-generated from official records and reviewed against our editorial guardrails.

Vote roll

No division has been recorded for this bill yet.