HC Deb 05 July 1933 vol 280 cc475-7

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Section this Act applies to all animals.

Provided that within the area of any local authority this Act, except the provisions of the Second Schedule thereto, shall not apply to any animal which in that area is exempt from the application thereof under this Section.

(2) Every local authority shall within twelve months after the passing of this Act consider the question whether they will pass a resolution applying this Act to all or any of the following animals, that is to say: sheep, ewes, wethers, rams, and lambs; and if such a resolution is at any time passed by a local authority relating to any such animals this Act shall apply to those animals accordingly, but in any area in which no such resolution has been passed the said animals shall be exempt from the application of this Act except the provisions of the said Second Schedule.

(3) If at any time a resolution is passed by a local authority exempting either goats or kinds, or both such animals. from the application of this Act in their area, the animals to which the resolution relates shall accordingly be exempt in that area from the application of this Act except the provisions of the said Second Schedule.

(4) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to any such resolution as is mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this Section—

  1. (a) not less than twenty-eight days before the meeting of the local authority at which the resolution is proposed special notice of the meeting and of the intention to propose the resolution shall be given to every member of the local authority and the like notice shall also be inserted at least once in one or more of the newspapers circulated within the area of the authority;
  2. (b) a resolution, after being passed, shall be published by advertisement in one or more of the newspapers circulated within the area of the local authority by whom it was passed, and may also be published otherwise in such manner as the local authority think sufficient for giving notice thereof to all persons interested;
  3. (c) a copy of every such resolution passed by a local authority shall be sent to the Minister of Health;
  4. (d) any such resolution passed by a local authority may be rescinded or varied by a subsequent resolution, but the foregoing provisions of this Sub-section shall apply with respect to any such subsequent resolution.—[Mr. Shakespeare.]

Brought up, and read the First time.

12.3 a.m.

Mr. SHAKESPEARE

I beg to move,

That the Clause be read a Second time. There are four Amendments on the Paper in my name. After the demonstration which has been made by hon. Members below the Gangway, the House may like to hear that, on the contentious issue of humane slaughter, the promoters and opponents of the Bill came last week to an agreement. The agreement is embodied in the four Amendments on the Order Paper, and I do not think it is necessary that I should stir the embers of controversy. Nothing remains but for me to congratulate the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Lieut. Colonel Moore) on the skill with which he handled the Bill in Committee, and the hon. Member for South Croydon (Mr. H. Williams) on his reasonableness in the recent controversy.

Clause added to the Bill.