ANIMALS (SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES)
ACT, 1986 EXAM BUNDLE –
SUMMARIES, PRACTICE TESTS &
KEY LEGAL PRINCIPLES
Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986
(updated 2012) - correct answers ✔✔ASPA
- Any living vertebrate, except man, and any living cephalopod.
- Protected from two-thirds of the way through the gestation or incubation period or
when capable of independent feeding.
- Cephalopods - from when they hatch - correct answers ✔✔Protected Animal
, Continuing to live until the permanent cessation of circulation or the destruction of its
brain - correct answers ✔✔Living
Any procedure applied to a protected animal for a qualifying purpose which may have
the effect of causing the animal a level of 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 - correct answers ✔✔Regulated Procedure
- Modifying the genes of a protected animal if this has the potential to cause the animal
pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm
- Those performed under anaesthesia or analgesia if the effect on the animal without
the anaesthetic or analgesic would be to cause pain, suffering distress or lasting harm
- Administering an anaesthetic, an analgesic or other measure to sedate or dull the
perception of pain in a protected animal
- Removing organs, blood or other tissue under general anaesthesia even if the animal
is not allowed to recover consciousness - correct answers ✔✔Regulated procedure
examples
- Humane killing using a method under Schedule 1 or in the Establishment Licence
under 2C
- Non-experimental agricultural practices
- Non-experimental clinical veterinary practices
- Veterinary clinical trials
- Ringing, tagging or marking of an animal identification (ear snipping) - correct answers
✔✔Non-regulated procedure examples
Am I using a protected animal?
Will there be potential for pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm...equivalent to, or
higher, than that caused by inserting a hypodermic needle?
Is it for a scientific or educational purpose i.e. data being collected? - correct answers
✔✔Is it a regulated procedure?
- Filling food hoppers and water bottles
- Withdrawal of food or water
- Placing animals in an altered environment
- Exposure to doses of radiation
- Pairing animals with harmful genetic defects
- Placing animals in restraining devices
- Operating machinery for inoculating eggs
- Placing eggs in chillers at the end of a procedure - correct answers ✔✔Delegated
Procedures
- Personal Licence (PIL)
- Project Licence (PPL)
- Establishment Licence (PEL) - correct answers ✔✔3 tier licencing system
(Person-Project-Place)
ACT, 1986 EXAM BUNDLE –
SUMMARIES, PRACTICE TESTS &
KEY LEGAL PRINCIPLES
Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986
(updated 2012) - correct answers ✔✔ASPA
- Any living vertebrate, except man, and any living cephalopod.
- Protected from two-thirds of the way through the gestation or incubation period or
when capable of independent feeding.
- Cephalopods - from when they hatch - correct answers ✔✔Protected Animal
, Continuing to live until the permanent cessation of circulation or the destruction of its
brain - correct answers ✔✔Living
Any procedure applied to a protected animal for a qualifying purpose which may have
the effect of causing the animal a level of 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 - correct answers ✔✔Regulated Procedure
- Modifying the genes of a protected animal if this has the potential to cause the animal
pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm
- Those performed under anaesthesia or analgesia if the effect on the animal without
the anaesthetic or analgesic would be to cause pain, suffering distress or lasting harm
- Administering an anaesthetic, an analgesic or other measure to sedate or dull the
perception of pain in a protected animal
- Removing organs, blood or other tissue under general anaesthesia even if the animal
is not allowed to recover consciousness - correct answers ✔✔Regulated procedure
examples
- Humane killing using a method under Schedule 1 or in the Establishment Licence
under 2C
- Non-experimental agricultural practices
- Non-experimental clinical veterinary practices
- Veterinary clinical trials
- Ringing, tagging or marking of an animal identification (ear snipping) - correct answers
✔✔Non-regulated procedure examples
Am I using a protected animal?
Will there be potential for pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm...equivalent to, or
higher, than that caused by inserting a hypodermic needle?
Is it for a scientific or educational purpose i.e. data being collected? - correct answers
✔✔Is it a regulated procedure?
- Filling food hoppers and water bottles
- Withdrawal of food or water
- Placing animals in an altered environment
- Exposure to doses of radiation
- Pairing animals with harmful genetic defects
- Placing animals in restraining devices
- Operating machinery for inoculating eggs
- Placing eggs in chillers at the end of a procedure - correct answers ✔✔Delegated
Procedures
- Personal Licence (PIL)
- Project Licence (PPL)
- Establishment Licence (PEL) - correct answers ✔✔3 tier licencing system
(Person-Project-Place)
