Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition
Hunting Bill
5:15 pm
Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal, Conservative)
I accept his comment and do not disagree. If, in the course of debate, the way in which the schedule operates is seen to be not what Deadline 2000 or anybody else intended, is it not perfectly open to this Committee to try to find a different way through? There appears to be sufficient concern about the way in which the provision would operate for us at least to look for a different wording and phraseology. I am not even pushing as far as the amendments. We could avoid what appears to be an unintended situation—for which the House did not vote. The House voted to give proper effect to the decision to ban hunting.