Section 2B Prohibition of unlicensed undertakingsF1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not, whether for profit or otherwise, carry on at any place an undertaking which involves one or more of the activities mentioned in subsection (2) unless the person is authorised to do so by a licence under section 2C.

(2)

The activities are—

(a)

the applying of regulated procedures to protected animals;

(b)

the breeding of relevant protected animals with a view to—

(i)

their use in regulated procedures, or

(ii)

the use of their tissues or organs for scientific purposes,

or the breeding of protected animals (other than relevant protected animals) primarily for purposes within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii);

(c)

the keeping of relevant protected animals which have been bred elsewhere and are to be supplied with a view to —

(i)

their use elsewhere in regulated procedures, or

(ii)

the use elsewhere of their tissues or organs for scientific purposes.

(3)

In this section “relevant protected animal” means a protected animal of a description specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 2B, 2C and cross-heading inserted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 6 (with Sch. 3)