Clause 3
Charities Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth, Labour)
The difficulty is applying the same principles to a variety of the 13 categories that we have in the Bill. Let us stick with the animal welfare point for a moment. Does my hon. Friend accept that, in the terms that he used earlier, one does not have to show that members of the public benefit from the pursuit of animal welfare in order to show that it is charitable and in the wider sense of the term produces that “public benefit”? I think that I virtually paraphrased his words. If we were to paraphrase that in relation to others of the objects, surely it would explain the situation clearly.