{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-21A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-21A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "section/21A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Statistics and reporting",
  "text": "(1) In each year, beginning with the year 2015, the Secretary of State must by 10 November—\n(a) collect and publish statistical information on the use of protected animals in regulated procedures during the previous year;\n(b) lay that information before Parliament; ...\n() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The statistical information must include information—\n(a) on the actual severity of the regulated procedures, and\n(b) on the origin and the species of any primates used in regulated procedures.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 21A inserted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 23 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 21A(1)(c) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/72), regs. 1, 2(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 21A(3)(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/72), regs. 1, 2(5)(b); 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/section/21A",
    "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."
}