Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 393

DOGS

Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

26th October 2001

Coming into operation

1st January 2002

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 31(1) of the Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and revocation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2002.

(2) The Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985(3), the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985(4) and the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(5) are hereby revoked.

Amendment of the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983

2. For Schedule 8 to the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983(6) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 26th October 2001.

L.S.

R. S. Johnston

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 7(2)

“SCHEDULE 8Licence Identification

Period during which licence is issued	Shape	Dimensions	Colour
From 1st January 2002 up to and including 31st December 2002	Oval	Major axis not more than 3.5 cms and not less than 3 cms Minor axis not more than 2.5 cms and not less than 2 cms.	Blue
From 1st January 2003 up to and including 31st December 2003	Oval	Major axis not more than 3.5 cms and not less than 3 cms. Minor axis not more than 2.5 cms and not less than 2 cms.	Orange
From 1st January 2004 up to and including 31st December 2004	Oval	Major axis not more than 3.5 cms and not less than 3 cms. Minor axis not more than 2.5 cms and not less than 2 cms.	Green
From 1st January 2005 up to and including 31st December 2005	Oval	Major axis not more than 3.5 cms and not less than 3 cms. Minor axis not more than 2.5 cms and not less than 2 cms.	Yellow”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983 by setting out, for the period 1st January 2002 up to and including 31st December 2005, the shape, dimensions and colour of licence identification discs issued by district councils.

While the shape and dimensions of the disc remain unchanged throughout the period, its colour varies each year so that it must be blue where a dog licence or block licence is issued in 2002, orange where such a licence is issued in 2003, green where such a licence is issued in 2004, and yellow where such a licence is issued in 2005.

The Regulations also revoke the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985, the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985 and the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland: see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Art. 3(4)

(2)

S.I. 1983/764 (N.I. 8)

(3)

S.R. 1985 No. 142

(4)

S.R. 1985 No. 338

(5)

S.R. 1997 No. 462

(6)

S.R. 1983 No. 378 as amended by S.R. 1985 No. 142, S.R. 1985 No. 338 and S.R. 1997 No. 462