page_title: Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876
section_title: The Act
hierarchical_section_title: Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 / The Act
caption_attribution_description: Statue of a brown dog, erected to commemorate the 233 animals used in vivisection experiments by University College, London, in 1902. The statue stood in Battersea from 1906 until 1910, when it was dismantled and presumed destroyed. See W:Brown dog affair.
context_page_description: The Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom which set limits on the practice of, and instituted a licensing system for animal experimentation, amending the Cruelty to Animals Act 1849. Its long title was An Act to amend the Law relating to Cruelty to Animals. The Act was replaced 110 years later by the Animals Act 1986.
context_section_description: The Act stipulated that researchers would be prosecuted for cruelty, unless they conformed to its provisions, which required that an experiment involving the infliction of pain upon animals to only be conducted when "the proposed experiments are absolutely necessary for the due instruction of the persons [so they may go on to use the instruction] to save or prolong human life".
  Furthermore, the Act stated that should the experiment occur, the animal must be anaesthetised, used only once (though several procedures regarded as part of the same experiment were permitted), and killed as soon as the study was over. Prosecutions under the Act could be made only with the approval of the Secretary of State. The Act was applicable to vertebrate animals only.
caption: A perception that the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was weak led to a libel suit, the erection of this monument to a vivisected "brown dog", and riots by medical students in 1907
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