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PARTIAL REVISION OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF ANIMALSOUTLINE LAW FOR THE HUMANE TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT
OF ANIMALS (in Japan)
Law No. 105, October 1, 1973, revised June 15, 2005 1. Establishing a basic
guideline and an animal protection
and control promotion plan
2. Rationalization of
animal handling businesses
(1) Introducing a “Registration
System”
(2) Requiring the appointment
and training of an “animal
handling responsible person”
(3) Reconsidering the range
of animal handling businesses
Add animal handling businesses
that don’t possess their own
animal holding facilities,
such as those specializing
in internet-based sales, etc.,
to the category of animal handling
businesses Also, clarify that “facilities
in which people come into contact
with animals” are included
in this category.
(4) Preventing obstacles
to the preservation of the
living environment
With regard to methods of
controlling animals, etc.,
require animal handling businesses
to follow a standard for preventing
obstacles to the preservation
of the living environment.
3. Establishing nationally
uniform individual identification
measures and registration
concerning the breeding of
specific animals, etc.
(1) Require individual identification
measures for specific animals
to be decided by government
ordinance out of concern over
their potential to cause harm
to human life. Also, empower
the Environment Ministry to
determine the concrete contents
of measures to clearly establish
the ownership of such specific
animals.
(2) Introduce comprehensive
nationally uniform regulations
concerning the breeding and
keeping of specific animals,
etc. (The present system consists
of regulations established
according to necessity.)
4. Considering cases
in which animals are used
for scientific research purposes
In respect of cases in
which animals are used for
scientific research purposes,
add the following passage. “Use
alternative methods that can
be substituted for methods
involving the use of animals
wherever possible while allowing
the scientific purpose of the
research to be achieved, and
pay due consideration to making
appropriate use of animals
by reducing as far as possible
the number of individual animals
used for research purposes.” (At
present, the law provides for “methods
that cause the animal in question
the minimum pain possible within
the limits imposed by the said
purposes.”)
5. Others
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