{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of unlicensed procedures.",
  "text": "No person shall personally apply a regulated procedure to an animal unless—\n(a) he holds a personal licence qualifying him to apply a regulated procedure of that description to an animal of that description;\n(b) the procedure is applied as part of a programme of work specified in a project licence authorising the application, as part of that programme, of a regulated procedure of that description to an animal of that description; and\n(c) the place where the procedure is carried out is a place specified in ... the project licence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 3 inserted (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 7(2) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(c) omitted (1.1.2013) by virtue of The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 7(3) (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/section/3",
    "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."
}