Animal Protection Act Article 17
17.1 One shall examine the conditions of a lab animal immediately after a scientific application is completed. Animals whose quality of life has been compromised from losing limbs, organs or pain shall be put to death in the least painful way.17.2 A lab animal must not be subject to additional use for scientific application before its physiological functions have fully recovered unless necessary for scientific purposes.
中文原文 動物保護法第17條
科學應用後，應立即檢視實驗動物之狀況，如其已失去部分肢體器官或仍持續承受痛苦，而足以影響其生存品質者，應立即以產生最少痛苦之方式宰殺之。
實驗動物經科學應用後，除有科學應用上之需要，應待其完全恢復生理功能後，始得再進行科學應用。
實驗動物經科學應用後，除有科學應用上之需要，應待其完全恢復生理功能後，始得再進行科學應用。