{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-2C/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-2C/paragraph-26.json",
  "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/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A project licence must include such conditions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate to ensure that regulated procedures are not applied to an animal as part of the specified programme of work if the data to be obtained from the application of those procedures is already available ... and has been obtained ... by procedures which satisfy any relevant regulatory requirements ....\n(2) A project licence may include exemptions from the conditions included in it by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) if the Secretary of State considers the exemptions are justified for the protection of public health, safety or the environment.",
  "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. 26(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/72), regs. 1, 2(6)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2C para. 26(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/72), regs. 1, 2(6)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2C para. 26(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/72), regs. 1, 2(6)(c)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/schedule/2C/paragraph/26",
    "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."
}