# Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, Paragraph 23


(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” ....
(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).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/schedule/2C/paragraph/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-2C/paragraph-23
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