Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance (Cap. 340)<\/strong><\/p>\n This link<\/a> <\/em>will open in a new window\u00a0<\/span>Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance (Cap. 340) (the Ordinance) provides for the control of experiments on living vertebrate animals. Under the Ordinance, “animal”<\/strong> means a living vertebrate animal and “experiment” means any experiment performed on an animal and calculated to give pain to the animal<\/strong>. Before performing an animal experiment, a person shall apply for a licence for that particular experiment by submitting an application form ( Form 1<\/a> ) and an Annex to the Form which has been added since 1 November 2013 to facilitate the processing of applications to the Director of Health. Please refer to the sections below for more details on the application procedures.<\/p>\n Keeping Records and Rendering Returns<\/strong><\/p>\n This link<\/em> <\/a>will open in a new window\u00a0<\/span>Animals (Control of Experiments) Regulations stipulate that every licensee shall keep records of all licensed experiments performed by him\/her in the form set out as Form 6<\/a> and shall render to the Director of Health on or before the 1st day of January of each year a return in the form set out as Form 7<\/a> of all licensed experiments performed by him\/her during the preceding twelve months. A nil return is required even if no experiment has been performed during the period.<\/p>\n Licensees are advised to read the explanatory notes<\/a> before filling in the Form 7<\/a>. Sample return forms<\/a> are available for reference. With effect from 1 November 2013, an Annex has been added to Form 7 to facilitate processing of the returns.<\/p>\n (Source: Department of Health<\/a>, HKSAR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Application for Animal Experiment Licence Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance (Cap. 340) This link will open in a new window\u00a0Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance (Cap. 340) (the Ordinance) provides for the control of experiments on living vertebrate animals. Under the Ordinance, “animal” means a living vertebrate animal and “experiment” means any experiment performed on an … Continue reading “Animal License”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}