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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-docking-of-working-dogs-tails-england-regulations-2007/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110757780",
  "legislation_title": "The Docking of Working Dogs’ Tails (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-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(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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "ISO Central Secretariat, International Organization for Standardization ( ISO), 1 rue de Varembé, Case postale 56, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110757780/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:26.461727+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."
}