{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348246063",
  "legislation_title": "The Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Powers of an authorised person",
  "text": "(1) An authorised person may, on producing the relevant written authorisation mentioned in regulation 12(1) or another official identity document, take possession of a cat or a dog without the consent of its keeper for the purpose of checking whether the cat or the dog is microchipped.\n(2) Where a cat or dog has not been microchipped and regulation 4 does not apply, the authorised person may—\n(a) serve on the keeper of the cat or the dog which has not been microchipped a notice requiring the keeper to have the cat or dog microchipped within 21 days;\n(b) where the keeper of the cat or the dog has failed to comply with a notice served under this paragraph—\n(i) take all necessary steps to arrange for the cat or the dog to be microchipped without the consent of the keeper; and\n(ii) recover from the keeper any costs associated with doing so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348246063/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:41.039278+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."
}