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[State] Tasmania [Legal? (Yes/No)] No [Relevant Provision] 
Section 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 1993 (Tas) provides that a person must not do an act which causes or is likely to cause unreasonable and unjustifiable pain or suffering to an animal. Under regulation 6 of the Animal Welfare (General) Regulations 2013 (Tas), such acts include docking all or part of a dog’s tail, or causing or permitting the docking of all or part of a dog’s tail. Regulation 6 does not apply where a veterinary surgeon uses anaesthesia to dock all or part of a dog’s tail for therapeutic purposes, and it also does not apply to a person who causes or permits a veterinary surgeon to perform the docking in the aforementioned permissible manner.
Is the tail docking of dogs legal? - RSPCA Australia knowledgebase
Relevant Provision