Cap. 439 чл. 40Obligations of licence holder.

(1) The holder of a licence under article 37 shall be obliged to ensure that the animal suffers as little distress as possible without defeating the object of the experiment.

(2) The licence holder shall ensure that, if the animal on which the experiment is being carried out could experience distress as a result of acts carried out without anaesthetic, a general or local anaesthetic is administered to the animal to prevent such distress: Provided that this obligation shall not apply in cases where the anaesthetic would defeat the object of the experiment.

(3) The licence holder shall ensure that any animal which, if allowed to live, would suffer distress for more than a short period as a result of an act performed as part of the experiment, is immediately put to death. Should the object of the experiment thus be defeated, the animal shall be put to death as soon as the experiment permits.

(4) The Minister may make regulations prescribing that such categories of treatment as may be specified in the regulations shall in all cases be carried out under anaesthetic.