Dog licence registered in New Zealand after 1 July 2006 must be microchipped before they can be registered. In England, Wales and Scotland, dog licensing was abolished in 1987. Prior to this dog licences were mandatory, but the requirement was widely ignored, with only about half of owners having one. The final rate for a dog licence was 37 pence, reduced from 37½p when the halfpenny was withdrawn in 1984. This figure was an exact conversion from 7/6 (seven shillings and sixpence) on decimalisation in 1971. The revenue went to local authorities. In 2016 it became a requirement that all dogs in
LGBT rights in Queensland Transgender and intersex activists have campaigned to have this abolished for years. Since October 2016, Queensland no longer by regulation records both height or gender on an individuals drivers licence. Australian Transgender Support Association Queensland president Gina Mather responded that her organisation had not been consulted and she believed that most trans* Queenslanders would in fact prefer to keep the sex identifier on their licences, since it was an easy way for them to prove their identity. Before the change, Queensland had been the only state to issue driver licences that contained a person's sex. Changing it required, in addition