HL Deb 17 November 2004 vol 666 cc1567-8

Tests for registration: utility and least suffering

(1) The first test for registration in respect of proposed hunting of wild mammals is that it is likely to make a significant contribution to one or both of, firstly, the management of wildlife and, secondly, the prevention or reduction of serious damage which the wild mammals to be hunted would otherwise cause to—

  1. (a) livestock,
  2. (b) game birds or wild birds (within the meaning of section 27 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69)),
  3. (c) food for livestock,
  4. (d) crops (including vegetables and fruit),
  5. (e) growing timber,
  6. (f) fisheries,
  7. (g) other property, or
  8. (h) the biological diversity of an area (within the meaning of the United Nations Environmental Programme Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992).

(2) The second test for registration in respect of proposed hunting of wild mammals is that a contribution equivalent to that mentioned in subsection (1) could not reasonably be expected to be made (whether by the person proposing to hunt or by another person) in a manner likely to cause significantly less pain, suffering or distress to the wild mammals to be hunted."

9A The Commons disagree to this Amendment for the following Reason—

Because it is undesirable to permit registered hunting.

Lord Whitty

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do not insist on its Amendments Nos. 2 to 9, to which the Commons have disagreed for their reasons numbered 2A to 9A. I have spoken to these amendments with Amendment No. 1.

Moved, That the House do not insist on its Amendments Nos. 2 to 9, to which the Commons have disagreed for their reasons numbered 2A to 9A.—(Lord Whitty.)

Baroness Mallalieu rose to move, as an amendment to the Motion that the House do not insist on its Amendments Nos. 2 to 9 to which the Commons have disagreed for their reasons numbered 2A to 9A, to leave out "not".

The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I beg to move.

Moved, as an amendment to the Motion that the House do not insist on its Amendments Nos. 2 to 9 to which the Commons have disagreed for their reasons numbered 2A to 9A, to leave out "not".—(Baroness Mallalieu.)

On Question, amendment agreed to.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.