§ Lord Hardy of Wathasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether offences against wild animals, and especially those involving the baiting and abuse of badgers, are classed as notifiable offences; and, if not, whether such a classification could be established without delay. [HL3213]
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§ Lord RookerThe Protection of Badgers Act 1992 provides the required statutory protection for badgers. The Act makes it an offence to cruelly kill, injure or take a badger or to attempt to do so, or to wilfully ill-treat a badger, or, intentionally or recklessly, to interfere with a badger sett by damaging it or any part of it.
These offences are recordable on the Police National Computer, although they are not notifiable to the Home Office for the purposes of the recorded crime statistics. These statistics are restricted to offences which are indictable or triable either way and a few closely associated summary offences. Although these arrangements may be changed without legislation, we do not consider that the additional
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