(1)Where a protected animal—
(a)has been subjected to a series of regulated procedures for a particular purpose; and
(b)at the conclusion of the series is suffering or likely to suffer adverse effects,
the person who applied those procedures, or the last of them, shall cause the animal to be immediately killed by a method appropriate to the animal under Schedule 1 to this Act or by such other method as may be authorised by the personal licence of the person by whom the animal is killed.
(2)Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to any condition of a project licence requiring an animal to be killed at the conclusion of a regulated procedure in circumstances other than those mentioned in that subsection.