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Anti Vivisection Action Network

The Petition Requesting to Enforce Measures against Animal Abuse Submitted to House of Representatives and House of Councilors (2009)
Act on Welfare and Management of Animals (Act No. 105 of October 1, 1973)
This English translation of the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals has
been prepared (up to the revisions of Act No.68 of 2005 (Effective June 1, 2006))
in compliance with the Standard Bilingual Dictionary March 2007 edition.

Revision of the Animal Protection and Control Law Achieved (2005)
PARTIAL REVISION OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF ANIMALS (June 22, 2005)
Signature Campaign for Revising the "LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF ANIMALS" (June 28, 2004)
"LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF ANIMALS"(LAW FOR THE HUMANE TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ANIMALS)
New name is LAW FOR THE HUMANE TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ANIMALS (Law No. 105, October 1, 1973, revised December 22, 2000)
The definition of "cruelty to animals"
What we must do
Revision of the Animal Welfare Law realized

The revision of the "Law concerning the Protection and Control of Animals", which we had been demanding for many years, finally became reality on 22 December 1999, twenty-six years after the law was first passed.(Law No. 105, October 1, 1973, revised December 22, 2000)

Background (1999)
Why Japan needs a new Animal Protection Law(1999)
from the homepage of the Japanese Society of Laboratory Animals (1999)
Standards relating to the care and management of experimental animals (1980)