Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (c. 14)

SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE 1 U.K. APPROPRIATE METHODS OF HUMANE KILLING

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (E.W.S.) (1.3.1997) and (N.I.) (9.6.1997) by S.I. 1996/3278, art. 2, Sch.; S.R. 1997/226, art. 2, Sch.

[F2 3. (1) A requirement in Table A for prior use of a sedative or anaesthetic— U.K.

(a) is subject to sub-paragraph (2); and

(b) is not to be read as prohibiting the prior use of sedative or anaesthetic in any cases where it is not required by that Table.

(2) Nothing in this Schedule requires or permits the prior use of sedative or anaesthetic where the distress likely to be caused by administering it is greater than the distress likely to be caused by using the appropriate method of killing without sedative or anaesthetic.]]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 16(3) (with Sch. 3)