CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 - SECT 3 General restrictions as to performance of painful experiments on animals.

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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 - SECT 3

General restrictions as to performance of painful experiments on animals.

3. The following restrictions are imposed by this Act with respect to the
performance on any living animal of an experiment calculated to give pain,
that is to say,

(1)The experiment must be performed with a view to the advancement by new
discovery of physiological knowledge or of knowledge which will be useful for
saving or prolonging life or alleviating suffering; and

(2)The experiment must be performed by a person holding such licence from
the Secretary of State, as is in this Act mentioned, and in the case of a
person holding such conditional licence as is herein-after mentioned, or of
experiments performed for the purpose of instruction in a registered place;
and

(3)The animal must during the whole of the experiment be under the influence
of some an'sthetic of sufficient power to prevent the animal feeling pain; and

(4)The animal must, if the pain is likely to continue after the effect of the
an'sthetic has ceased, or if any serious injury has been inflicted on the
animal, be killed before it recovers from the influence of the an'sthetic
which has been administered; and

(5)The experiment shall not be performed as an illustration of lectures in
medical schools, hospitals, colleges, or elsewhere; and

(6)The experiment shall not be performed for the purpose of attaining manual
skill.

Provided as follows; that is to say,

(1)Experiments may be performed under the foregoing provisions as to the use
of an'sthetics by a person giving illustrations of lectures in medical
schools, hospitals, or colleges, or elsewhere, on such certificate being given
as in this Act mentioned, that the proposed experiments are absolutely
necessary for the due instruction of the persons to whom such lectures are
given with a view to their acquiring physiological knowledge or knowledge
which will be useful to them for saving or prolonging life or alleviating
suffering; and

(2)Experiments may be performed without an'sthetics on such certificate being
given as in this Act mentioned, that insensibility cannot be produced without
necessarily frustrating the object of such experiments; and

(3)Experiments may be performed without the person who performed such
experiments being under an obligation to cause the animal on which any such
experiment is performed to be killed before it recovers from the influence of
the an'sthetic on such certificate being given as in this Act mentioned, that
the so killing the animal would necessarily frustrate the object of the
experiment, and provided that the animal be killed as soon as such object has
been attained; and

(4)Experiments may be performed not directly for the advancement by new
discovery of physiological knowledge, or of knowledge which will be useful for
saving or prolonging life or alleviating suffering, but for the purpose of
testing a particular former discovery alleged to have been made for the
advancement of such knowledge as last aforesaid, on such certificate being
given as is in this Act mentioned, that such testing is absolutely necessary
for the effectual advancement of such knowledge.

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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 - SECT 3