Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering
Hunting Bill
4:30 pm
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test, Labour)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. My point relates specifically to the enjoyment of sport and recreation. The tests that he is asking the registrar to look at are all objective, save one; the enjoyment of sport and recreation, which is subjective. As my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West said, effectively all one needs to do is to tell the tribunal, ''I really do enjoy this'', and because it is subjective and not objective, it trumps the other. There is no method of proving or disproving that statement. It is a matter of how the person has described it. Under those circumstances, does not the hon. Gentleman accept that his list is somewhat disingenuous and dishonest?