§ Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendments.
LORD SAYE AND SELEThere are several Amendments standing in my name on the Paper. The first is of a drafting nature. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 1, page 1, line 19, leave out ("aid or").—(Lord Saye and Sele.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 6:
§ 6. It shall not be lawful for any person who shall be licensed to slaughter horses, during the time while such licence shall be in force, to exercise or use the trade or business of a dealer in horses.
LORD SAYE AND SELEI move to omit from Clause 6 the words "exercise or use" and to substitute "carry on."
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Amendment moved—
Clause 6, page 4, line 28, leave out ("exercise or use") and insert ("carry on").—(Lord Saye and Sele.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
LORD SAYE AND SELEI now move the addition to Clause 6 of the new subsection standing in my name on the Paper.
§ Amendment moved—
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Clause 6, page 4, line 29, after ("horses") insert the following new subsection—
(2) If any person shall act in contravention of this section he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 10:
§ 10. Any person who sets, or causes or procures to be set, any spring trap for the purpose of catching any hare or rabbit, or which is so placed as to be likely to catch any hare or rabbit, shall inspect, or cause some competent person to inspect, the trap at least once in every twelve hours, and, if any person shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section, he shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
984THE EARL OF STRADBROKEI move, in Clause 10, to leave out the words "at least once in every twelve hours" in order to insert "at reasonable intervals of time and at least once every day between sunrise and sunset." I understand this Amendment is agreed to.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 10, line 37, omit ("at least once in every twelve hours") and insert ("at reasonable intervals of time and at least once every day between sunrise and sunset").—(The Earl of Stradbroke.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Amendments moved—
§ Clause 14, page 7, lines 40 and 41, leave out ("before or at or after") and insert ("on")
§ Clause 14, page 7, line 41, and page 8, line 1, leave out ("if ordered by the Court of Quarter Sessions to do so in accordance with the order and")
§ Clause 17, page 9, line 18, leave out ("six") and insert ("eight").—(Lord Saye and Sele.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons, and to be 'printed as amended. (No. 170.)