{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/45",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Welfare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Scientific research",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Act applies to anything lawfully done under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (c. 14).\n(2) No power of entry, inspection or search conferred by or under this Act, except for any such power conferred by section 28, may be exercised in relation to a place which is specified in a licence granted under section 2C of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (licensing of undertakings involving the use of animals for scientific procedures).\n(3) Section 9 does not apply in relation to an animal which—\n(a) is being kept at a place specified in a licence granted under section 2C of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, and\n(b) is being so kept for the purposes of, or in connection with, an activity mentioned in section 2B(2) of that Act that is pursued at that place in the course of carrying on the undertaking authorised by the licence.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(2) substituted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 29(2) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 58(3)(a)(b) substituted for s. 58(3)(a)-(d) (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 29(3) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 58(4) omitted (1.1.2013) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 29(4) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 27.3.2007 for W. by S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 6.4.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/45/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:44.862642+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}