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F1SCHEDULE 2CCONDITIONS IN LICENCES

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PART 3Conditions in project licences

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1

A project licence must include a condition requiring the holder to ensure that the regulated procedures applied as part of the specified programme of work are those which to the greatest extent meet the following requirements—

a

use the minimum number of animals;

b

involve animals with the lowest capacity to experience pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm;

c

cause the least pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm;

d

are most likely to provide satisfactory results.

2

A project licence must include a condition requiring the holder to ensure that the regulated procedures applied as part of the specified programme of work are designed so as—

a

to result in the death of as few protected animals as possible; and

b

to reduce to the minimum possible the duration and intensity of suffering caused to those animals that die and, as far as possible, ensure a painless death.