172 Local offences

Local offences are offences relating to the management of a local municipal area. This includes offences relating to land use, construction of buildings, and local amenity. It also includes bylaws created by local governments within Australia and New Zealand, where these laws are not elsewhere classified.

Construction and land use offences include breaches of planning regulations, building permits, or land zoning, and other offences relating to the construction of buildings or use of land.

• Breach a building permit, planning permit or planning regulations
• Breach heritage regulations
• Breach regulations relating to traditional ownership or protection of sacred sites
• Change use of building without required permit
• Construction without required permit
• Contravene town planning requirements
• Demolition or destruction of a building in breach of heritage or planning regulations
• Fail to comply with land use planning legislation
• Undertaking an activity that is not permitted due to zoning restrictions
• Other construction and land use offences

• Breach occupational health and safety regulation on a worksite including construction sites – coded to 1292 Occupational safety offences
• Offences relating to the management of national parks, bushland, farmland, or bodies of water – coded to the relevant groups within 16 Environmental offences
• Purchase or sale of sexual services including operation of a brothel outside a permitted zone – coded to 1713 Unlawful purchase or sale of sexual services

Pet registration and management offences relating to the registration and management of domestic animals such as dogs or cats. 

• Breach domestic animal bylaws, such as cat curfews, or failure to complying with signage requirements for a declared dangerous dog 
• Breach domestic animal registration legislation
• Breach regulations relating to maximum number of dogs or other pets
• Fail or refuse to microchip or desex a pet where required
• Fail to register a pet or renew a registration
• Other pet registration and management offences

• Breach livestock regulation offences – coded to 1629 Environmental management offences
• Keep wildlife as a pet without a licence – coded to 1622 Parks and wildlife offences
• Mistreatment of a pet – coded to 1630 Animal cruelty

This group includes any local offences not elsewhere classified, including offences relating to a local area, or breaches of local government bylaws that are out of scope for other groups.

• Breach local laws, such as relating to property maintenance
• Breach local laws relating to commercial activities, such as hawking or retail activity on footpaths
• Busking without a permit
• Fail to make a payment to a local council
• Other breach of local laws not elsewhere classified
• Other local offences not elsewhere classified

• Air pollution offences, such as relating to private use of woodfires or woodstoves – coded to 1611 Air pollution offences
• Drinking alcohol in a prohibited area – coded to 1232 Alcohol offences
• Food safety offences – coded to 1231 Sanitation or disease offences
• Parking offences – coded to 1392 Parking offences
• Smoking or vaping in a prohibited area – coded to 1233 Tobacco, nicotine, or related offences