{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3039",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Neuromuscular blocking agents",
  "text": "For section 17 substitute—\n“Neuromuscular blocking agents\n17 (1) A person must not use a neuromuscular blocking agent in the course of a regulated procedure unless—\n(a) the person is expressly authorised to do so by the personal licence and the project licence under which the procedure is carried out; and\n(b) the agent is used in combination with such level of anaesthesia or analgesia as is determined in accordance with the project licence.\n(2) The Secretary of State must not grant a project licence that authorises the use of a neuromuscular blocking agent unless the Secretary of State is satisfied, on the basis of a scientific justification, that the purposes of the programme of work specified in the licence cannot be achieved without the use of such an agent.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3039/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:18.715523+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."
}