Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
Schedule 1 to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 sets out, for the purposes of the Act, the standard methods of humane killing. This Order revises that Schedule. A full explanation of the requirements is contained in the revised Code of Practice issued under section 21 of the 1986 Act, which was presented to Parliament on 13th January 1997 (HC 193).
A compliance cost assessment of the effects that this Order will have on business is available from:
Home Office, Animals Procedures Section Room 983 50 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AT.