I paid a £500 fine for a cat that had been chipped for six years: the officer told me one line I’d never updated was the whole problem
A community support officer’s knock on the door cost one cat owner £500—not because their cat wasn’t chipped, but because the address on the database hadn’t been updated in three years. Under England’s 2023 microchipping regulations, a chip with stale information is treated almost the same as no chip at all.