{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-dogs-england-regulations-2014/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-dogs-england-regulations-2014/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111122501",
  "legislation_title": "The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-microchipping-of-dogs-england-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Powers of an authorised person",
  "text": "An authorised person may, on producing the written authorisation mentioned in regulation 11(1) or 11(2) or other official identity document in the case of a police constable or a community support officer, if required—\n(a) serve on the keeper of a dog which is not microchipped a notice requiring the keeper to have the dog microchipped within 21 days;\n(b) where the keeper of a dog has failed to comply with a notice under paragraph (a), without the consent of the keeper—\n(i) arrange for the dog to be microchipped; and\n(ii) recover from the keeper the cost of doing so;\n(c) take possession of a dog without the consent of the keeper for the purpose of checking whether it is microchipped or for the purpose of microchipping it in accordance with sub-paragraph (b)(i).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111122501/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:11:52.011433+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."
}