{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1744",
  "legislation_title": "The Dangerous Dogs Compensation and Exemption Schemes Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-compensation-and-exemption-schemes-order-1991",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Certificate of Exemption",
  "text": "(1) If satisfied that the conditions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of article 4 have been met, the Agency shall issue a certificate of exemption in respect of the dog.\n(2) Such a certificate shall contain the following requirements:\n(a) a requirement to notify the Agency of any change of address at which the dog to which it relates is kept for a period in excess of 30 days;\n(b) a requirement to notify the Agency of the death or export of the dog;\n(c) a requirement, on request by a person specified in section 5(1) of the Act, to produce the certificate to such a person within five days of being requested to do so;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) a requirement to satisfy the Agency that article 8 continues to be complied with;\n(f) a requirement to keep the dog to which it relates in sufficiently secure conditions to prevent its escape;\n(g) a requirement to keep the dog to which it relates muzzled and on a lead when in a public place;\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Such a certificate may also contain such additional requirements, including the imposition of time limits, as the Agency may reasonably require for the purpose of ensuring that the requirements of this article are complied with.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.) (3.3.2015) by The Dangerous Dogs Exemption Schemes (England and Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/138), art. 1(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 10(2)(d) omitted (1.7.2026) by virtue of The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/204), arts. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(2)(e) substituted (1.7.2026) by The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/204), arts. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 10(2)(g) inserted (21.10.1991) by The Dangerous Dogs Compensation and Exemption Schemes (Amendment) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2297), arts. 1, 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 10(2)(h)(i) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) (Scotland) Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/70), arts. 1(1), 13(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 10 in force at 12.8.1991, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/212",
      "affecting_title": "The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1744/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:11.349656+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}