Schedule 1 - Exempt hunting
Hunting Bill
4:00 pm
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative)
He could not, because under the Bill people must register if they want to hunt using dogs. If they want to set dogs on to a prey and the dogs then chase the prey and kill it, that is hunting as defined by the Bill and something for which people must register. We are not discussing registration. We are discussing a technical term-—exemptions—which is quite different from registration. People must register if they want to hunt and kill. We are discussing exemptions, which are not registered. In one case a dog is used to kill the animal and in the other a gun is used to kill it. I hope that that is clear, but I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman understood that. The question is whether it is practical and sensible to flush an animal out to a gun using only two dogs or whether it would be better to use 40 dogs.