HC Deb 21 May 1954 vol 527 cc2486-7

Lords Amendment: In page 9, line 12, leave out from "use" to "poisoned" in line 13.

Lady Tweedsmuir

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

Subsection (1, d) enables the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries or the Secretary of State for Scotland to license the use of traps as well as poison or stupefying bait for catching Second Schedule birds. Since the Bill passed this House an objection has been raised that it would enable the Minister or Secretary of State to license the use of such things as pole traps for catching birds. This practice has been illegal for a great number of years. The use of traps for catching Second Schedule birds is, of course, restricted by licence and by Clause 5 (3, a).

Sir T. Moore

I beg to second the Motion.

Question put, and agreed to.

Lords Amendment: In page 9, line 14, at end, insert: (e) for the purpose of taking wild birds in order to ring or mark, or examine any ring or mark on, all or any of the birds taken and then release them, to use within any area specified in the licence any form of artificial light or a rocket-propelled net.

Lady Tweedsmuir

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This and the next two Amendments are consequential. This Amendment provides for the grant of a licence for the use of rocket nets for catching birds and the use of artificial light. The licensing authority in the first case is the Secretary of State and in the second the Nature Conservancy.

Sir T. Moore

I beg to second the motion.

Question put, and agreed to.

Further Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 9, line 17, leave out "or paragraph (b)" and insert"(b) or (e)"

In line 21, leave out "the said paragraph (a)" and insert: paragraph (a)or (e) of that subsection.