{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-exemption-schemes-england-and-wales-order-2015/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-exemption-schemes-england-and-wales-order-2015/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Dangerous Dogs Exemption Schemes (England and Wales) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-dogs-exemption-schemes-england-and-wales-order-2015",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Issue of certificate of exemption",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Agency must issue a certificate of exemption in respect of the dog if it is satisfied that—\n(a) the court, in determining that the dog is not a danger to public safety, has decided the person to whom the certificate is to be issued is a fit and proper person to be in charge of the dog and has made the dog subject to a contingent destruction order;\n(b) a fee of £92.40 has been paid to the Agency; and\n(c) the conditions referred to in articles 6(1) and 7(1) have been met.\n(2) Where the dog is a dog of the type known as the XL Bully that is owned by a rehoming organisation to which a certificate of exemption had been issued in respect of the dog under Part 2 of the Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2023, a certificate of exemption may not be issued by the Agency under paragraph (1) unless it is issued to that rehoming organisation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 9 renumbered as art. 9(1) (31.12.2023) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1407), arts. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2023) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1407), arts. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in art. 9(1)(b) substituted (5.12.2024) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1149), arts. 1(2), 2(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(1)(c) substituted (5.12.2024) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1149), arts. 1(2), 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(1)(c) substituted (1.7.2026) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/602), arts. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 9(2) inserted (31.12.2023) by The Dangerous Dogs (Exemption Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1407), arts. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/138/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:54.982473+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."
}