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Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
This report provides statistics relating to the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s use of living animals in scientific procedures.
Apply for a licence to import live animals (not pet dogs, cats and ferrets).
What to do if you’re bringing your pet or pets to Great Britain: quarantine rules, documents you need, types of animal you can bring.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
How to apply for a licence, when you need a licence, fees, licence conditions and records you must keep.
Animal Health was a UK government executive agency primarily responsible for ensuring that farmed animals in Great Britain were healthy, disease-free and well looked after. It was merged with the Veterinary Laboratory Agency in 2011 to form the Animal Health...
How to manage tuberculosis (TB) in your non-bovine animals, when you can move them, and how to get compensation if you slaughter them.
Annual statistics relating to scientific procedures performed on living animals in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
User guide to Home Office statistics of scientific procedures on living animals.
Letter from the Chair of the Animals in Science Committee to the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation about the animal testing debate in Parliament.
The prohibitions and restrictions on the import of animal furs and skins into the UK and the export of salmon and trout.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
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