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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-1998/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1974",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 5 (project licences), for subsection (5) there shall be substituted—\n“(5) The Secretary of State shall not grant a project licence unless he is satisfied—\n(a) that the purpose of the programme to be specified in the licence cannot be achieved satisfactorily by any other reasonably practicable method not entailing the use of protected animals; and\n(b) that the regulated procedures to be used are those which use the minimum number of animals, involve animals with the lowest degree of neurophysiological sensitivity, cause the least pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm, and are most likely to produce satisfactory results.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3039",
      "affecting_title": "The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1974/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  },
  "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."
}