S.L. 439.13 ст. 3Applicability. S.L. 427.58

(1) These regulations shall apply where animals are used or intended to be used in procedures, or bred specifically so that their organs or tissues may be used for scientific purposes, and shall apply until the animals referred to in this sub-regulation have been killed, rehomed or returned to a suitable habitat or husbandry system. The elimination of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm by the successful use of anaesthesia, analgesia or other methods shall not exclude the animal used in procedures from the scope of these regulations.

(2) These regulations shall also apply to the following animals:

(a) live non-human vertebrate animals, including:

(i) independently feeding larval forms; and

(ii) foetal forms of mammals as from the last third of their normal development;

(b) live cephalopods.

(3) Furthermore, these regulations shall apply to animals used in procedures, which are at an earlier stage of development than that referred to in sub-regulation (2)(a), if the animal is to be allowed to live beyond that stage of development and, as a result of the procedures performed, is likely to experience pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm after it has reached that stage of development.

(4) Without prejudice to sub-regulation (1), these regulations shall not apply to the following:

(a) non-experimental agricultural practices;

(b) non-experimental clinical veterinary practices;

(c) veterinary clinical trials required for the marketing authorisation of a veterinary medicinal product;

(d) practices undertaken for the purposes of recognised animal husbandry;

(e) practices undertaken for the primary purpose of identification of an animal;

(f) practices not likely to cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm equivalent to, or higher than, that caused by the introduction of a needle in accordance with good veterinary practice.

(5) These regulations shall apply without prejudice to the Cosmetics Products Regulations.