Source register

This is the complete evidence base, rendered from the same registers the build cites — not a curated summary of it. If a source is missing here, no page may rely on it.

Two distinctions matter when reading the tables below. Registered means the source’s canonical locator, monitoring method and review trigger are recorded, but the source has not been read for production claims. Verified means it has been read on the date shown and claims were extracted from it. Only verified sources may be cited by a page.

Sources are grouped by governing layer, because a claim from a carrier and a claim from a border authority answer different questions and can legitimately disagree.

How the Australian sources are read

The Australian department’s site cannot be reached from the machine that builds this site, so its pages were captured by hand in a browser on 25 August 2026 and are read from those captures. Claims still come from the authority’s own page — never from someone else’s summary of it — and each records the page’s own last-updated date.

How the Great Britain sources are read

Every Great Britain source was read directly from the build network on 10 September 2026: GOV.UK, the commercial import information note, the Act itself, and both origin authorities. Nothing on this destination depends on someone else’s retrieval, which is the opposite of the Australian position above.

Two of those sources are read on a weekly cycle rather than a quarterly one. The approved carrier and route lists are mandatory — a pet may enter England or Scotland only on an approved route — and they changed 34 times between 2 January and 4 September 2026. A carrier named on this site therefore carries the date its entry was read, and an instruction to confirm before booking. We never say a carrier does not carry pets; we say it was not named on the authority’s list when the list was read.

Four registered sources have not been read

4 registered sources have not been read for production claims. Each is recorded with its locator and review trigger, and no page may rely on any of them:

• the APHIS certificate-form page for shipments including dogs;
• the Heathrow Animal Reception Centre pre-check guidance;
• the Great Britain model health certificates for commercial movements;
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/705, which changes the EU’s identification documents with transitional dates running into 2027 and 2028.

The last two matter most, and both are deliberately left as gaps rather than filled with a plausible answer. The commercial route turns on a requirement — that the animal comes from a premises registered by the authority of origin — whose practical consequences for a private owner are not yet established. The EU regulation is in force but its effect on a passport presented at a Great Britain border has not been read from the Commission’s own text. Until both are read, the pages state the Great Britain side, which is verified, and say plainly that the other side is not covered.

A fifth item is not a source gap but a legal one. The Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Act 2025 has Royal Assent, and its substantive sections come into force only on a day the Secretary of State appoints. No commencement regulations were found on 10 September 2026, so nothing in that Act appears anywhere on this site as a current requirement.

That state is not decoration. It is checked against the register itself by the test suite, so this section cannot quietly fall out of date while the register moves on.

The largest remaining gap is the carrier layer, which is open but thin. Two sources are recorded: the IATA Live Animals Regulations, a paid standard this site cites for its existence and structure but does not reproduce, and one airline’s published policy. The carriers that actually fly American, British and Canadian pets into Melbourne are mostly not recorded — some did not respond to retrieval and one refused it.

That thinness is stated on every air-travel page rather than papered over, because a carrier is authoritative only for its own acceptance rules. Those rules change faster than law and differ by route, season and aircraft, so they are kept in their own layer rather than mixed in with government requirements — and a claim recorded from one airline says nothing about any other.

Register state

45 sources registered, of which 41 have been read and are available to cite, supporting 261 recorded claims. A source counts as registered once its canonical locator, monitoring method and review trigger are recorded; it only becomes verified when it has actually been read and a claim extracted from it. Pages may cite verified sources only.

Recorded claims