HC Deb 03 June 1921 vol 142 c1411

Every person who shall keep or use, or act in the management of, any place wherein there shall he exhibited for the purpose of public entertainment any performing animal or bird, whether of domestic or wild nature, save as hereinafter expressly provided, or shall permit or suffer any such place to be so used, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every day there shall be so exhibited for the purpose of public entertainment such performing animal or bird: Provided always, that every person who shall receive money for the admission of the public on behalf of any other person to any such place shall be deemed to be the keeper thereof.

Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY

I beg to move to leave out the words "save as hereinafter expressly provided."

This is a drafting Amendment, and does not in any way alter the intention of the Clause.

Mr. WIGNALL

I beg to second the Amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY

I beg to move, after the word "used" ["place to be so used"], to insert the words and every person who shall exhibit for the purpose of public entertainment any such performing animal or bird. This is put in in consultation with the Home Office, in order to meet an objection raised in Committee, with which I entirely agree, that the last four lines of the Clause are too wide and might sharass people with whom there is no intention of interfering.

Mr. WIGNALL

I beg to second the Amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: Leave out the words Provided always, that every person who shall receive money for the admission of the public on behalf of any other person to any such place shall be deemed to be the keeper, thereof."—[Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy.]