(1)A project licence is a licence granted by the Secretary of State which specifies a programme of work and authorises the application, as part of that programme, of specified regulated procedures to animals of specified descriptions at a specified place or specified places.
(2)A place may not be specified in a project licence unless it is a place at which a person is authorised by a section 2C licence to carry on an undertaking involving the applying of regulated procedures to protected animals.
(3)But subsection (2) does not apply in any case in which it appears to the Secretary of State, on the basis of a scientific justification, that the programme or procedures authorised by the project licence require a different place to be specified.
(4)In the circumstances set out in Article 40.4 of the Animals Directive, a project licence may specify a programme of work which consists of multiple generic projects.]
Extent Information
E1In its application to Northern Ireland, this section has effect subject to the modifications set out in s. 29, see s. 29(1)
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 5-5G substituted for s. 5 (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 9(1) (with Sch. 3)