The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (Amendment) Regulations 1993 / [Home Office].

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1993
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (Amendment) Regulations 1993 / [Home Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Spo Ue Kk YeIN S TRU MENTS 1993 No. 2102 ANIMALS 1 P98 899 M25 : ‘ : ge ‘aa , The Animals (Scientific Procedy t Getre for Medical Ssience | (Amendment) Regulations 1993 Made - - - - 23rd August 1993 Laid before Parliament 2nd September 1993 Coming into force Ist October 1993 In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(a), 1, being a Minister designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes(b), hereby make the following Regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on Ist October 1993. 2.—(1) Section 10 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986(c) (Conditions of licences), shall be amended as follows. (2) In subsection (3)— (a) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted— ieengd (c) that no vertebrate of an endangered species shall be used under the licence; ”’, and (b) at the end there shall be added— “and no exception shall be made from the condition required by paragraph (c) above unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that the use of animals of the species in question will be in conformity with the Council Regulation and that the purposes of the programme of work specified in the licence are either research aimed at preservation of the species in question or essential bio-medical purposes where the species in question exceptionally proves to be the only one suitable for those purposes”’. (3) After subsection (3) there shall be inserted— (3A) In subsection (3) above— i ““ endangered species” means a species listed in Appendix | of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (which is set out in Annex A to the Council Regulation) or in Annex C.1 to the Council Regulation; and * essential bio-medical purposes” has the same meaning as in Council Directive No. 86/609/EEC(d), and in subsection (3) above and this subsection “the Council Regulation” means Council Regulattron (EEC) No. 3626/82(e) as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 869/88(f) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1970/92(g).”’. Home Office Michael Howard 23rd August 1993 One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State (a) 1972 c.68. (b) The European Communities (Designation) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/595). (c) 1986.14. (d) OJ No. L358, 18.12.86, p.1. (e) OJ No. L384, 31.12.82, p.1. (f) OJ No. L087, 31.3.88, p.67. (g) OJ No. L201, 20.7.92, p.1. Thy
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