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Guidance and regulatory advice on how to apply for licences issued under ASPA and how your compliance with ASPA and your licence conditions will be assessed.
How to apply for a licence to offer boarding for cats and dogs, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Apply for a licence to move and keep certain non-native (alien) species for animal welfare purposes.
How to manage tuberculosis (TB) in your non-bovine animals, when you can move them, and how to get compensation if you slaughter them.
What you need to do to export live animals from the UK.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
How to apply for a licence to import, release or keep non-native animals.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare on farms, in transport, at markets and at slaughter.
Bringing pets into Great Britain: pet passports, Great Britain pet health certificates, microchipping, rabies vaccinations, travelling with assistance dogs.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
Advice to give pregnant women on infections that can be transmitted via contact with animals that are or have recently given birth.
Form for the owner or manager of a premises to apply for registration to export animals under Council Directive 92/65/EEC.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Sets out the standards of care and accommodation of animals required by the Animals (Scientific) Procedures Act 1986.
The Committee was the body responsible for advising the Home Secretary on matters relating to animal testing. The functions of the Committee were set down in the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. The Committee was disbanded at the end of...
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
The new working protocol jointly developed between the Home Secretary and the Animals in Science Committee.
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