![]() ‘No person shall apply a regulated procedure to an animal unless…Ī) He holds a personal licence qualifying him to apply a regulated procedure of that description to an animal of that descriptionī) the procedure is applied as part of a programme of work specified in a project licence authorising the application, as part of that programme, of a regulated procedure of that description to an animal of that description andĬ) the place where the procedure is carried out is a place specified in the personal licence and the project licence. Who can do research using animals in the UK? ![]() ASPA 1986 is enforced by the UK Home Office and the Secretary of State rather than the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. It is with no small amount of pride that I can point out that this means the UK was working under the modern standards of regulation for at least a quarter of a century. The reality was that 2010/63 makes little noticeable difference to individual UK researchers save for tightening controls on aspects such as record keeping in areas like training and numbers of animals used. The basic relationship between these two pieces of legislation is that ASPA 1986 defines the regulations and 2013/63 provides harmonisation with other EU member states. The revised legislation came into force on 1 January 2013. ![]() ASPA has recently been revised to transpose European Directive 2010/63/EU (2) on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes into UK law. In the UK the ability to perform animal experiments is regulated by the Animals in Scientific Procedures Act 1986 (ASPA 1986) (1). This post aims to discuss the process of getting a personal licence in the UK and is written by Peter Wright a PhD student at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (He is also the founder of KeepResearchAfloat). The project, the individual and the institution must all have licenses from the Home Office. There are three levels of licensing required before a procedure can take place in the UK.
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