PART 1 DOG BREEDING Licensing of activity of dog breeding 1 Duty to make licensing regulations 10 (1) The Scottish Ministers must make regulations under section 27(1) and (5)(a) of the 2006 Act (which confer power to make regulations licensing activities involving animals) to provide that the activity of dog breeding is a licensed activity. ubsection (1) must come into force no later (2) The first regulations made in pursuance of s 6 months after Royal Assent. than (3) Section 27(9) of the 2006 Act (which requires consultation on regulations made under 15 section 27) does not apply to regulations made in pursuance of this section so far as they make provision required by this Part. (4) The references in this Part to “licensing regulations” are to regulations made in pursuance of this section. 20 2 Scope of licensed activity (1) Licensing regulations must define the activity of dog breeding so that it includes keeping a breeding establishment for dogs at premises. (2) Licensing regulations must include provision to the effect that— (a) a person is to be treated as keeping a breeding establishment for dogs at premises 25 if the person carries on at those premises a business of breeding dogs for sale (whether by the person or anyone else), and SP Bill 74 Session 5 (2020) 2 Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill Part 1—Dog breeding (b) where— (i) a person (“P...