{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/468",
  "legislation_title": "The Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/microchipping-of-cats-and-dogs-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Powers of the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may serve a notice on a database operator requiring it to provide any information—\n(a) recorded on a database which it operates;\n(b) relating to the functioning of the regulatory regime established by these Regulations;\n(c) necessary to demonstrate that it is meeting the conditions in regulation 7.\n(2) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a database operator does not meet the conditions in regulation 7, the Secretary of State may serve a notice requiring that database operator to—\n(a) cease holding itself out as meeting the conditions in regulation 7; and\n(b) provide the Secretary of State or another database operator with an electronic copy of all the data recorded on its database pursuant to regulation 3(4)(b).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 20.5.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/468/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:46:19.712195+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."
}