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Home Office Licensee Training Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Question: PIL
Ans✅ ✅: Procedures Individual Licence
• a licence granted by the Secretary of State qualifying the holder to apply specified
regulated procedures to specified animals at specified places
• must receive training before they can obtain a licence
Question: Module training course
Ans✅ ✅: • Candidates successfully completing this course will gain a Home Office
Module Training Certificate (not a Home Office Licence!)
• Certificate holders can obtain a licence to work under supervision and with project
licence authorisation
• Further training required to gain competence in specific techniques:
- observation
- simulations
- cadavers
- work under direct supervision with
assistance
• Need to maintain records of training and competencies
Question: What animals are protected?
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Ans✅ ✅: Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (as amended 2012)
Any living vertebrate (excluding man)
• mammals, birds, reptiles:
- from 2/3 of the way through gestation or
incubation
• other vertebrates (i.e. fish):
- from the time when they are capable of
independent feeding
And any living cephalopod
Question: When is an animal no longer living?
Ans✅ ✅: Living until:
• permanent cessation of circulation
• or destruction of the brain
• so includes decerebrate animals (hind brain/brainstem still intact)
Question: Where can procedures take place?
Ans✅ ✅: • specified institution
• specified rooms
• named individuals take responsibility for ensuring that everything done at the place
is authorised
Question: What procedures? (Project licences)
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Ans✅ ✅: • Project Licences are granted by the Secretary of State
• The project specifies a programme of work, and as part of that programme authorises
the application of:
- specified regulated procedures
- to animals of specified descriptions
- at a specified place(s)
Question: The 3 Rs
Ans✅ ✅: • The 3 Rs provide a framework for more humane animal research
• Replace, Reduce and Refine
• REPLACE:
- use of animals with alternatives (cell lines,
animal or human tissue, non-protected
species
• REDUCE:
- numbers used
• REFINE:
- procedures carried out (to minimise pain,
suffering, distress, or lasting harm)
Question: The 3 Vs
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Ans✅ ✅: • Construct Validity
- is the model measuring what it claims?
• Internal validity
- does the study establish a trustworthy
cause-and-effect relationship between the
treatment and outcome (outcome not
influenced by other factors and variables)
• External Validity
- how generalisable the findings are to the
wider situation (do the findings apply to
other people, settings, situations, etc)
Question: What procedures? (Regulated procedures)
Ans✅ ✅: Regulated procedures:
• are carried out on a protected animal
• for experimental, scientific, or educational purpose
• may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm equivalent to, or higher than, that
caused by inserting a hypodermic needle according to good veterinary practice
• includes actions and omissions
- dosing, sampling, withholding food
Question: Non-regulated procedures
Home Office Licensee Training Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Question: PIL
Ans✅ ✅: Procedures Individual Licence
• a licence granted by the Secretary of State qualifying the holder to apply specified
regulated procedures to specified animals at specified places
• must receive training before they can obtain a licence
Question: Module training course
Ans✅ ✅: • Candidates successfully completing this course will gain a Home Office
Module Training Certificate (not a Home Office Licence!)
• Certificate holders can obtain a licence to work under supervision and with project
licence authorisation
• Further training required to gain competence in specific techniques:
- observation
- simulations
- cadavers
- work under direct supervision with
assistance
• Need to maintain records of training and competencies
Question: What animals are protected?
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Ans✅ ✅: Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (as amended 2012)
Any living vertebrate (excluding man)
• mammals, birds, reptiles:
- from 2/3 of the way through gestation or
incubation
• other vertebrates (i.e. fish):
- from the time when they are capable of
independent feeding
And any living cephalopod
Question: When is an animal no longer living?
Ans✅ ✅: Living until:
• permanent cessation of circulation
• or destruction of the brain
• so includes decerebrate animals (hind brain/brainstem still intact)
Question: Where can procedures take place?
Ans✅ ✅: • specified institution
• specified rooms
• named individuals take responsibility for ensuring that everything done at the place
is authorised
Question: What procedures? (Project licences)
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Ans✅ ✅: • Project Licences are granted by the Secretary of State
• The project specifies a programme of work, and as part of that programme authorises
the application of:
- specified regulated procedures
- to animals of specified descriptions
- at a specified place(s)
Question: The 3 Rs
Ans✅ ✅: • The 3 Rs provide a framework for more humane animal research
• Replace, Reduce and Refine
• REPLACE:
- use of animals with alternatives (cell lines,
animal or human tissue, non-protected
species
• REDUCE:
- numbers used
• REFINE:
- procedures carried out (to minimise pain,
suffering, distress, or lasting harm)
Question: The 3 Vs
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Ans✅ ✅: • Construct Validity
- is the model measuring what it claims?
• Internal validity
- does the study establish a trustworthy
cause-and-effect relationship between the
treatment and outcome (outcome not
influenced by other factors and variables)
• External Validity
- how generalisable the findings are to the
wider situation (do the findings apply to
other people, settings, situations, etc)
Question: What procedures? (Regulated procedures)
Ans✅ ✅: Regulated procedures:
• are carried out on a protected animal
• for experimental, scientific, or educational purpose
• may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm equivalent to, or higher than, that
caused by inserting a hypodermic needle according to good veterinary practice
• includes actions and omissions
- dosing, sampling, withholding food
Question: Non-regulated procedures
