{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "The Committee for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes",
  "text": "(1) There is to be a committee to be known as the Committee for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes.\n(2) The Committee is to consist of a chair and other members appointed by the Secretary of State.\n(3) Members of the Committee are to be appointed for such periods as the Secretary of State may determine.\n(4) A person may resign as a member of the Committee or as its chair by notice in writing to the Secretary of State.\n(5) The Secretary of State may terminate the appointment of a member if satisfied that—\n(a) for a period of six months beginning not more than nine months previously the member has, without the consent of the other members, failed to attend the meetings of the Committee;\n(b) the member is an undischarged bankrupt or has made an arrangement with his or her creditors;\n(c) the member is for any reason incapable of acting as a member; or\n(d) the member has been convicted of such a criminal offence, or the member’s conduct has been such, that it is not in the Secretary of State’s opinion fitting that the member should remain a member.\n(6) The Secretary of State may make payments to the chair by way of remuneration and may make payments to the chair and the other members in respect of expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.\n(7) The Secretary of State may also defray any other expenses of the Committee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 19, 20 substituted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 20 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "In its application to Northern Ireland, this section has effect subject to the modifications set out in s. 29, see s. 29(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/section/19",
    "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."
}