Power of Director-General to order replacement of institutional animal care and use committee
9.—(1)  Where the Director-General is of the opinion that the institutional animal care and use committee of a licensee is not discharging its functions in a proper or satisfactory manner, the Director-General may order the licensee to —
(a)remove or replace any member of the institutional animal care and use committee; or
(b)dissolve that institutional animal care and use committee and appoint a new institutional animal care and use committee in its place.
(2)  Until the licensee has complied with any order given by the Director-General under paragraph (1) —
(a)the licensee shall ensure that no animal is kept or used by any person for any scientific purpose in the research facility of the licensee unless otherwise allowed by the Director-General and subject to such conditions as the Director-General may impose; and
(b)the Director-General may, if he thinks necessary, suspend the licence of the licensee.
(3)  For the purposes of paragraph (1), an institutional animal care and use committee is not discharging its functions in a proper or satisfactory manner if the committee fails to comply with —
(a)any provision of these Rules; or
(b)any guidelines issued or adopted, or any directives issued, by the Director-General under rule 18.