{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Details to be recorded on databases",
  "text": "(1) Where a keeper is under an obligation to ensure that a cat or a dog is microchipped, the details to be recorded on a database as referred to in regulation 3(4)(b) are—\n(a) the full name and address of the keeper;\n(b) if the keeper is also the breeder of that dog, that fact;\n(c) if the keeper is the breeder of that dog and is licensed by a local authority under regulation 4 of the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018—\n(i) the breeder’s licence number; and\n(ii) the name of the local authority which issued the licence;\n(d) the original name or identification number given to the cat or the dog;\n(e) the contact telephone number (if any) for the keeper;\n(f) any other name given to the cat or the dog by the keeper if that name is different to the cat or dog’s original name;\n(g) the sex of the cat or dog;\n(h) the breed of the cat or dog, or a description if it is a cross-breed;\n(i) the colour of the cat or the dog;\n(j) the date of birth of the cat or dog to the best of the keeper’s knowledge;\n(k) the unique number of the microchip implanted in the cat or dog.\n(2) In this regulation “breeder” means any keeper of a bitch which whelps, whether or not they carry on a business as a breeder of dogs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2018/486."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348246063/regulation/6",
    "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."
}