TEXT OF THE ACT 



329 



The Presidents of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in a d. 1876. 



London, Edinburgh, or Dublin ; 

 The President of the General Medical Council ; 

 The President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons 



of Glasgow ; 



The President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 

 or the President of the Royal Veterinary College, 

 London, but in the case only of an experiment to be 

 performed under anaesthetics with a view to the 

 advancement by new discovery of veterinary science ; 

 and also (unless the applicant be a professor of physiology, 

 medicine, anatomy, medical jurisprudence, materia medica, 

 or surgery in a university in Great Britain or Ireland, or in 

 University College, London, or in a college in Great Britain 

 or Ireland, incorporated by royal charter) by a professor of 

 physiology, medicine, anatomy, medical jurisprudence, materia 

 medica, or surgery in a university in Great Britain or Ireland, 

 or in University College, London, or in a college in Great 

 Britain or Ireland, incorporated by royal charter. 



Provided that where any person applying for a certificate 

 under this Act is himself one of the persons authorised to 

 sign such certificate, the signature of some other of such 

 persons shall be substituted for the signature of the applicant. 



A certificate under this section may be given for such time 

 or for such series of experiments as the person or persons 

 signing the certificate may think expedient. 



A copy of any certificate under this section shall be for- 

 warded by the applicant to the Secretary of State, but shall 

 not be available until one week after a copy has been so 

 forwarded. 



The Secretary of State may at any time disallow or suspend 

 any certificate given under this section. 



12. The powers conferred by this Act of granting a license Power of judge 

 or giving a certificate for the performance of experiments on fOT^xpe^iSent 6 

 living animals may be exercised by an order in writing under ^SmScSe 

 the hand of any judge of the High Court of Justice in 

 England, of the High Court of Session in Scotland, or of any 

 of the superior courts in Ireland, including any court to which 



