{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-england-regulations-2007/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-england-regulations-2007/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1120",
  "legislation_title": "The Docking of Working Dogs’ Tails (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Identification of docked dogs",
  "text": "(1) In order to be identified as a subsection (3) dog as required by section 6(8) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 a dog must be microchipped—\n(a) by a veterinary surgeon or a veterinary nurse acting under the supervision of a veterinary surgeon; and\n(b) using a microchip which complies with either ISO standard 11784 or Annex A to ISO standard 11785 of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for microchips.\n(b) with a microchip which—\n(i) has a unique number which includes the manufacturer’s code;\n(ii) is compliant with ISO standard 11784:1996 of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for microchips;\n(iii) is compliant with all of ISO standard 11785:1996 of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for microchips apart from Annex A; and\n(iv) responds to a transponder which operates at 134.2 kilohertz and conforms with the FDXB protocol set out in ISO standards 11784:1996 and 11785:1996.\n(2) A dog may only be microchipped for the purposes of these Regulations after the owner, or a person whom the veterinary surgeon who is to carry out or supervise the microchipping reasonably believes to be representing the owner, has made a signed and dated statement in paragraph 4 of a certificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 2.\n(3) The veterinary surgeon who carries out or supervises the microchipping must certify that fact in paragraph 2 of a certificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (temp. until 24.2.2022) (24.2.2015) by The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/108), regs. 1(b)(c), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 6.4.2007, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1120/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:34.564450+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."
}