HL Deb 05 July 1973 vol 344 cc470-1

7.29 p.m.

LORD JANNER

My Lords, I beg to move that this Report be now received.

Moved, That the Report be now received.—(Lord Janner.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

Clause 8 [Supplementary provisions as to the register and fees]:

LORD JANNER moved Amendment No. 1. Page 4, line 13, after ("number of") insert ("or the amount of money received from")

The noble Lord said: My Lords, this Amendment is in response to a suggestion made in Committee by the noble Lord, Lord Craigton, that the amount of money received as well as the number of admissions should be taken into consideration when deciding on the annual subscription. At the Committee stage I promised to look into this matter and in those circumstances I have tabled this Amendment. I beg to move.

VISCOUNT COLVILLE OF CULROSS

My Lords, my noble friend is not here at the moment but we think this Amendment meets the point that was raised and that it is an improvement to the Bill.

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 13 [Interpretation]:

LORD JANNER moved Amendment No. 2:

Page 6, line 6, at end insert— (" "deer-park" means any enclosure where are kept deer of a species indigenous to or feral in the United Kingdom")

The noble Lord said: My Lords, this Amendment is in response to a suggestion in Committee of the noble Duke, the Duke of Atholl. May I say at once that he has asked me to offer his apologies to your Lordships for not being able to be present in consequence of previous arrangements which he could not possibly avoid. In the circumstances, I am moving this Amendment, and the noble Duke, the Duke of Atholl, has already intimated to me that he is agreeable to the Amendment. Consequently, I shall be dealing with the Amendment which stands in his name later on.

My Lords, the point of subsection (3) was to catch the zoo which tried to hide behind car park or stately home charges. The object of this Amendment is to exclude genuine deer-parks from this provision. My wording is perhaps a little more precise than that which the noble Duke wanted. As your Lordships are aware from the Bill itself, domestic animals are already excluded from the definition as not being exotic or indigenous. The word "feral" means a domestic animal which has run wild and is now to be thought of as wild. I think this fairly well covers the point I am making, and I beg to move.

VISCOUNT COLVILLE OF CULROSS

My Lords, we really did not much mind whether it was the noble Lord's Amendment that was put into the Bill or that of my noble friend the Duke of Atholl, but after it has been explained so lucidly and so accurately by the noble Lord, Lord Janner, we are entirely happy with his version of it.

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

LORD JANNER

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment No. 4. This is only an Amendment which is necessary for the purpose of the Bill itself. The words "or deer park" have to be included.

Amendment moved— Page 6, line 11, at end insert ("or deer park")—[Lord Janner.]

On Question, Amendment agreed to.