{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-docking-of-working-dogs-tails-certification-and-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2012/9780337987960",
  "legislation_title": "The Docking of Working Dogs’ Tails (Certification and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-docking-of-working-dogs-tails-certification-and-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Identification of docked dogs",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 6(10)(b) of the Act a dog must be identified in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) The dog must be microchipped by a competent person working in the same practice within which paragraph 2 of a certificate in the form prescribed in the Schedule was completed in respect of that dog.\n(3) The dog may only be microchipped after the owner, or a person whom the competent person who is to carry out the microchipping reasonably believes to be representing the owner, has made a signed and dated statement in paragraph 3 of a certificate in the form prescribed in the Schedule.\n(4) The competent person who carries out the microchipping must certify that fact in paragraph 4 of a certificate in the form prescribed in the Schedule.\n(5) Where a veterinary practice ceases to operate after the docking of a dog’s tail, the owner of the dog may take the dog to a different veterinary practice to have the microchipping procedure carried out and a competent person at that veterinary practice must record the reason in paragraph 4 of the certificate in the form prescribed in the Schedule.\n(6) For the purpose of this Regulation-\n(a) “competent person” means a veterinary surgeon or person who has received instruction on how to implant a microchip.\n(b) “microchipped” means implanted with a valid microchip in accordance with regulation 9 of the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2012 No.132"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2012/9780337987960/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:41:17.057116+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."
}