Guide dogs

Guide dogs accompanying people with disabilities must be registered but they are given the following privileges:

the registration fee is waived for both the visually or hearing impaired person and the trainer of the guide dog.
a visually impaired person, hearing impaired person or person training a guide dog may, at all times and in all places, be accompanied by a dog kept and used, or trained by him or her as a guide dog.
the owner of a guide dog is not guilty of an offence which would have made them liable had the dog which committed it not been a guide dog.
the trainer of the dog is not liable for an offence under the same Act while the dog is being trained.

Discrimination against a person using a guide dog

Under the Equal Opportunity Act (1)A person must not refuse to provide accommodation to a person with a visual, hearing or mobility impairment because that person has a guide dog.

A person must not require, as a term of providing accommodation to a person with a visual, hearing or mobility impairment who has a guide dog—that the dog be kept elsewhere or that the person pay an extra charge because of the dog.