§ 74. Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to arrange that the issue of dog licences should fall in line with wireless licences, so that permission to keep dogs shall run for 12 months from the date of issue instead of, as now, from 1st January?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe dog licence duty in England and Wales is not an Imperial but a local taxation duty. The conditions affecting dog licences and wire less licences are materially different, and I doubt whether my hon. and gallant Friend's proposal would be practicable or desirable, but in any case I could not consider legislation to give effect to it unless it were supported by the various local authorities concerned.
§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTWill the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of making these licences attach to the animal and not to the person? Is it not the case that in a change of ownership a distinct hardship is very often experienced in a dog already being licensed and a further licence having to be taken out?