{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Neuromuscular blocking agents",
  "text": "(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": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17 substituted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 17 (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/section/17",
    "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."
}