{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-2C/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2C/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A project licence must include a condition requiring the holder to ensure that where a regulated procedure has been applied to an animal as part of the specified programme of work a suitably qualified person classifies the severity of the procedure as “non-recovery”, “mild”, “moderate” or “severe” ....\n(1A) Section 5BA applies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) as it applies for the purposes of section 5B(3)(c), but as if the reference in section 5BA(5) to the Secretary of State were a reference to the suitably qualified person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, a series of regulated procedures applied to an animal for a particular purpose is to be treated as constituting a single regulated procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2C inserted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 10(2), Sch. 2 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2C para. 23(1) omitted (19.6.2026) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/663), regs. 1(1), 11(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2C para. 23(1A) inserted (19.6.2026) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/663), regs. 1(1), 11(e)(ii)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/schedule/2C/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:27.371223+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."
}