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Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export other live animals to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
This report provides statistics relating to the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s use of living animals in scientific procedures.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
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.
Apply for a licence to import live animals (not pet dogs, cats and ferrets).
What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Annual statistics relating to scientific procedures performed on living animals in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
You must fill in this form to confirm that you won't sell or transfer the pet dog, cat, ferret or assistance dog to a new owner in the UK.
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...
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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