- to prevent ➡️ infliction of unnecessary pain & suffering on animals
- covers all animals
- wild
- domestic
- animals except human beings
Statutory Bodies
- Committee for Purpose of Control & Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPC SEA)
- Institutional Animal Ethics Committees (IAEC)
- in every lab
- Animal Welfare Board of India
- to implement the provisions
Also refer: Animal Birth Control Rules 2023