{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Protected animals",
  "text": "In section 1 (definition of “protected animal”)—\n(a) in subsection (1) at the end insert “and any living cephalopod”;\n(b) in subsection (2)(a) for “half” substitute “two-thirds of”;\n(c) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Any living cephalopod in its embryonic form is not a protected animal.”;\n(d) in subsection (3)(a) for “invertebrates of any description” substitute “any description of invertebrates other than cephalopods”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 4 was amended by S.I. 1993/2103."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3039/regulation/3",
    "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."
}