Regulation 5 Form of a microchipI1

England and Wales

Any microchip implanted in a cat or a dog must meet the following requirements—

(a)

it must have a unique number which includes the manufacturer’s code;

(b)

it must be compliant with ISO standard 11784:1996 of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for microchips^f1;

(c)

it must be compliant with ISO standard 11785:1996 of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for microchips apart from Annex A; and

(d)

it must respond to a transponder which operates at 134.2 kilohertz and conforms with the FDXB protocol set out in ISO standards 11784:1996 and 11785:1996.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 5 in force at 20.5.2023, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: ISO Central Secretariat, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), 1 rue Varembé, Case postale, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland. A copy of the relevant standard is available from https://www.iso.org/standards.html