{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-2B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-2B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2033",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2B",
  "heading": "Information with the application: animal testing",
  "text": "(1) Where information to be included in an application under paragraph 2(8) includes information concerning experiments on animals, this paragraph applies in respect of that information.\n(2) The application must state whether the information was obtained from an experiment conducted in accordance with the requirements in sub-paragraph (4).\n(3) The Secretary of State must, in assessing the application, disregard any information to which this paragraph applies which was not obtained from an experiment conducted in accordance with the requirements in sub-paragraph (4).\n(4) The requirements are—\n(a) the experiment was conducted in accordance with a detailed written protocol prepared in advance;\n(b) the experiment was designed to use the minimum number of animals and cause the least pain, suffering or lasting harm, and there was no satisfactory alternative in vitro test available to be used which would have reduced these impacts;\n(c) informed consent to the experiment and its consequences (including as regards disposal of treated animals and the taking of produce from treated animals) was obtained in writing from the owner of the animal before the animal was first treated under the experiment;\n(d) the welfare of the animals was subject to veterinary supervision throughout the experiment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 paras. 2-2C substituted for Sch. 1 para. 2 (E.W.S.) (17.5.2024) by The Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/567), regs. 1(1), 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2033/schedule/1/paragraph/2B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:44.019972+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."
}