Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
Preliminary
1Protected animals
2Regulated procedures
Personal and project licences
3Prohibition of unlicensed procedures
4Personal licences
5Project licences
Designated establishments
6Scientific procedure establishments
7Breeding and supplying establishments
8Fees
Licences and designation certificates: general provisions
9Consultation
10Conditions
11Variation and revocation
12Right to make representations
13Suspension in cases of urgency
Additional controls
14Re-use of protected animals
15Killing animals at conclusion of regulated procedures
16Prohibition of public displays
17Neuromuscular blocking agents
The inspectorate and the committee
18Inspectors
19The Animal Procedures Committee
20Functions of the Committee
Miscellaneous and supplementary
21Guidance, codes of practice and statistics
22Penalties for contraventions
23False statements
24Protection of confidential information
25Powers of entry
26Prosecutions
27Repeal, consequential amendments and transitional provisions
28Orders
29Application to Northern Ireland
30Short title, interpretation and commencement
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Standard Methods of Humane Killing
SCHEDULE 2Animals to be Obtained only from Designated Breeding or Supplying Establishments
SCHEDULE 3Consequential Amendments
1In section 1(3) of the Protection of Animals Act 1911...
2In section 1(3) of the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act...
3In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Protection of...
4In section 12 of the Pests Act 1954 for the...
5In section 19(4)(a) of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 for...
6In section 1(2A)(b) of the Slaughter of Poultry Act 1967...
7In section 1(2) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968...
8In sections 1(2) and 15(a) of, and paragraph 1 of...
9In section 8(3) of the Badgers Act 1973 for the...
10In section 5(4) of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976...
SCHEDULE 4Transitional Provisions
Existing licences
1Any licence which immediately before the coming into force of...
Current experiments
2(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, any experiment or series...
Existing certificates
3A person shall not by virtue of paragraphs 1 or...
Registered premises
4Until such date as the. Secretary of State may direct...
Inspectors
5Any person who at the coming into force of section...

Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

1986 Chapter 14

An Act to make new provision for the protection of animals used for experimental or other scientific purposes.

Be it enactedby the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—