§ Mr. BlackburnI beg to move amendment No. 145, in page 11, line 3, at end insert—
'(1A) No licence may be revoked under subsection (1)(a) or (b) on grounds involving the care or treatment of animals unless the authority first consults such persons on the list as the Secretary of State may nominate for the purposes of this subsection.'.The purpose of the amendment is simply to say that when a licence is to be revoked we regard the closing of a zoo as such an important step that we feel that the zoo industry would wish, as I as promoter wish, to have the safeguard provided by the amendment, namely, that such a step should not be taken without first consulting such persons on the Secretary of State's list.It is a good, sensible amendment and I commend it to the House.
§ Amendment agreed to.