The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Appropriate Methods of Humane Killing) Order 1996

Made: 16th December 1996

Laid before Parliament: 16th January 1997

Coming into force: 1st March 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Appropriate Methods of Humane Killing) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st March 1997.

2

For Schedule 1 to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Tom Sackville, — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 16th December 1996

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 14.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1995/731.