{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Project licences: general",
  "text": "(1) A project licence is a licence granted by the Secretary of State which specifies a programme of work and authorises the application, as part of that programme, of specified regulated procedures to animals of specified descriptions at a specified place or specified places.\n(2) A place may not be specified in a project licence unless it is a place at which a person is authorised by a section 2C licence to carry on an undertaking involving the applying of regulated procedures to protected animals.\n(3) But subsection (2) does not apply in any case in which it appears to the Secretary of State, on the basis of a scientific justification, that the programme or procedures authorised by the project licence require a different place to be specified.\n(4) A project licence may specify a programme of work which consists of multiple generic projects if the projects—\n(a) are to be carried out to satisfy regulatory requirements, or\n(b) use animals for production or diagnostic purposes, in accordance with established methods.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 5-5G substituted for s. 5 (1.1.2013) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3039), regs. 1(2), 9(1) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(4) substituted (19.6.2026) by The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/663), regs. 1(1), 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/5",
    "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."
}