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7. ON FILLING IN FORMS 
Forms of application for licence and certificates are obtainable from 
H.M. Stationery Office at : — 
York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 
13a Castle Street, Edinburgh, 2 
39 King Street, Manchester, 2 
2 Edmund Street, Birmingham, 3 
1 St. Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff 
Tower Lane, Bristol, 1 
or through any Bookseller. They cost, respectively, 4d. and 3d. each. 
On completion by the applicant, the form must be signed by a 
professor in some branch of medical science and a president of one of 
certain named bodies, in accordance with Section 1 1 of the Act, and then 
submitted to the Home Office. 
The Research Defence Society will gladly help applicants to obtain 
and complete forms and advise them about obtaining the appropriate 
signatures. 
If applications for licences and certificates are incorrectly presented, 
this may result in delay in their being granted and approved and cause much 
avoidable trouble to the applicant, the signatories and the Home Office. 
The following notes are designed to obviate this : they are com- 
plementary to, and should be read in conjunction with, those printed on the 
forms of application for licence and the various certificates. If any doubt 
exists, the Home Office Inspector may be consulted. 
Whenever a new certificate is submitted, or the location of the licence 
is to be amended, the licence must be forwarded to the Home Office. 
(1) Application for Licence 
“ Places at which it is proposed to perform the experiments ” (p. 2). 
These must be registered places as a rule ; but in certain cases a licence 
may be made available “ at such other places, not being registered places, 
as may be necessary (in experiments under Certificate ) provided the 
Inspector be given sufficient notice of the performance of any such experiments 
to enable him to be present if he so desires .” If, later, additional or 
alternative places are required, the licence must be sent to Home Office 
for endorsement before it is valid at the new places. 
“ Nature of proposed experiments ” (p. 3). The licence by itself 
covers only experiments during the whole of which the animal is under an 
anaesthetic, from which it does not recover. In practice, the licence, 
when granted, covers experiments on any animals (other than horses, 
asses or mules) which are so conducted ; for this reason, a broad descrip- 
tion only is required here. 
(2) Certificate A 
Certificate A deals with experiments where an anaesthetic is unneces- 
sary. It covers minor manipulations and procedures ; under “ descrip- 
tion of experiments to be performed ” these should be specified in terms 
such as “ injection ," “ inoculation," “ withdrawal of body fluids," 
“ administration of substances by enteral or parenteral routes," “ exposure 
to rays, * to infection, to variations of temperature* or atmospheric pressure,*" 
* The circumstances necessitating these procedures should be explained and also the 
upper and lower limits of temperature and pressure and of irradiation dose. 
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