{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/1028",
  "legislation_title": "The Docking of Working Dogs' Tails (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docking-of-working-dogs-tails-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "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) 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 transceiver 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 Part 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 Part 5 of a certificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1)(b) substituted (25.12.2015) by The Microchipping of Dogs (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1990), regs. 1(2), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 28.3.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1028/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:12.102983+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."
}