Animal Welfare Act 2025

For the purposes of this Act (but subject to subsection (2)), licences are divided into the following classes:

animal supplier's licence—a licence authorising the breeding and supplying of animals for scientific purposes;

animal use licence—a licence authorising the keeping and use of animals for scientific purposes.

The regulations may—

prescribe additional classes of licence; and

divide a class of licence into subclasses; and

prescribe the persons or organisations, or classes or groups of persons or organisations, to which licences, or any classes or subclasses of licences, may be granted.