Special permits

(1) Where the Director of Health Services is satisfied that the object of any experiment permitted to be performed by a licensee under this Act would necessarily be frustrated, Animals (Control of Experiments) [CAP. 148 7 (a) by the performance of such experiment under any anaesthetic; or (b) by killing the animal on which such experiment is performed before it recovers from the influence of any anaesthetic, he may grant a special permit authorising the licensee to perform such without administering any anaesthetic to the animal or without killing the animal before it recovers from the influence of such anaesthetic, as the case may be. (2) Any special permit under this section shall specify the period for which it shall remain in force.