Guidance on the operation of The Animals (Scientific Purposes) Act, UK (ASPA)
| Record number: | 92a1b (legacy id: 15213) |
|---|---|
| Category: | Agricultural animals - Anaesthesia and analgesia - Aquatic animals - Behavioural research - Birds - Blood sampling - Design - Disease research - Education and training - Environmental enrichment - Ethics & harm-benefit analysis - Fish - Handling (3R Guide) - Housing and management - Humane killing - Non-human primates - Procedures - Reporting - Surgical research - Transport |
| Type: | Regulations and policies |
| Relevance: | Reduction - Refinement - Replacement |
The guidance explains how the The Animals (Scientific Purposes) Act (ASPA) is administered and enforced and provides detailed guidance to holders of establishment licences, project licences and personal licences and new licence applicants.
The guidance document can be accessed here. Published 13 March 2014. More details about the issue and the legislation is available on the Home Office website, including:
- advisory notes on actual severity reporting of regulated procedures
- advice on severity assessment of genetically altered animals
- instruction on completion of annual return of procedures
- a draft code of practice on the care and accommodation of animals
- guidance on naming of products and substances in project licences for batch quality control and regulatory toxicology.
A consolidated version of the Act was made available in June 2017.
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