Licence - dog breeding
The Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act
1999
Any person, who breeds dogs and sells them to the general
public, must obtain a licence. A licence is granted
annually and always expires on the 31st December each year.
A breeding establishment is defined as follows:
- A person keeps a breeding establishment for dogs at any
premises if he/she carries on at those premises a business of
breeding dogs for sale
- A person whose bitch or bitches give birth to five or more
litters in any 12 month period is presumed to be carrying on a dog
breeding business
- In general, a breeder whose rate of litter production brings
him/her within this category will have to be licensed
- Bitches count towards the qualifying total if they are kept at
any time during the 12 month period by the applicant/licence holder
at the premises at which he/she is carrying on the business of
breeding dogs for sale; or if they are kept at those premises by
any of his/her relatives
- 'Premises' includes a private
dwelling
All applications for the above licences need to be
made in writing by completing the application form and
returning the completed form along with the relevant fee to:
Environmental Health, Borough of Broxbourne,
Bishops College, Churchgate, Cheshunt, EN8 9XE.
Fees may also be paid over the phone, using a credit or
debit card, by ringing 01992 785511. Please see list of
current fees and note that all application fees are not
refundable.
Here are the conditions that the above
establishments are required to meet in order to obtain a
licence.