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expected to take appropriate action, up to and including cancellation of 
registration. From neither of these decisions is there any appeal. 
5. CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO LICENCES 
Section 8 of the Act states that there may be annexed to such licence 
any condition which the Secretary of State may think expedient for the 
purpose of better carrying into effect the objects of this Act, but not 
inconsistent with the provisions thereof. 
In practice, some ten conditions are attached to all licences, and are 
reproduced on pages 2-4 of the licence. Others may be added in special 
cases. 
Condition No. 1 lists the places where the licensee may carry out 
experiments. These must be registered places, but in case of necessity 
special provision can be made for experiments to be done elsewhere, 
provided prior permission is obtained from the Home Office, and an 
additional entry is made under Condition No. 1 on the licence (see 
p. 1 1 below). This is to cover the possibility of diagnostic tests and other 
procedures having to be done in the field under conditions of urgency or 
for other reasons that preclude them from being done elsewhere. 
It occasionally happens that a licensee wants to move an animal 
that is under experiment from one registered place to another. In such 
an event he should ensure that his licence is available at both places, and 
he should seek the permission of the Home Office before he moves the 
animal. 
Condition No. 2 states that no experiment under any certificate held 
by the licensee may be performed until he has been notified that the 
certificate has not been disallowed by the Secretary of State. The 
submission of a certificate, duly signed, is thus not immediately followed 
by its coming into effect. 
Condition No. 3, known as the pain condition, applies to all experi- 
ments under certificates A and B. It states that : — 
(a) If an animal at any time during any of the said experiments is 
found to be suffering pain which is either severe or is likely to 
endure, and if the main result of the experiment has been attained, 
the animal shall forthwith be painlessly killed ; 
( b ) If an animal at any time during any of the said experiments is 
found to be suffering severe pain which is likely to endure, such 
animal shall forthwith be painlessly killed ; 
(c) If an animal appears to an Inspector to be suffering considerable 
pain, and if such Inspector directs such animal to be destroyed, 
it shall forthwith be painlessly killed. 
The pain condition epitomizes the purpose of the Act, and on its 
strict observance the whole administration of the Act depends. 
Condition No. 4, known as the limitation condition, states that, 
under Certificate A, no operative procedure more severe than simple 
inoculation or superficial venesection may be adopted in any such 
experiments. 
Condition No. 5 applies to all experiments under Certificate B. It 
requires that all operative procedures in connection with such experiments 
shall be carried out under anaesthetics of sufficient power to prevent the 
animal from feeling pain, and that the animals upon which experiments 
