Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1997 No. 462

DOGS
Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made
21st October 1997

Coming into operation
1st January 1998

The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 31(1) of the Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983(1) 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) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1998.

(2) The Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(2) 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(3) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on

L.S.
R. S. Johnston
Assistant Secretary
21st October 1997.

Regulation 2
SCHEDULE

Regulation 7(2)

“SCHEDULE 8Licence Identification

Period during which licence is issued
Shape
Dimensions
Colour

From 1st January 1998 up to and including 31st December 1998
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 1999 up to and including 31st December 1999
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 2000 up to and including 31st December 2000
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 2001 up to and including 31st December 2001
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 1998 up to and including 31st December 2001, 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 1998, orange where such a licence is issued in 1999, green where such a licence is issued in 2000 and yellow where such a licence is issued in 2001.
The Regulations also revoke the Dogs (Licensing and Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.


(1)
S.I. 1983/764 (N.I. 8)

(2)
S.R. 1993 No. 453

(3)
S.R. 1983 No. 378