Orders of the Day — Slaughterhouses Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 January 1974.
I have been trying desperately to catch your eye, Mr. Mallalieu. I wish to speak briefly about the slaughtering——
The First Deputy Chairman:
Is the hon. Gentleman speaking to Schedule 1?
Yes. Schedule I relates to the licensing of Shochetim, and the regulations for securing humane conditions of slaughtering are dealt with in Clause 38.
I want merely to ask my right hon. and learned Friend to look into the Shochetim killing of both animals and poultry with a view to seeing whether in future legislation he can come back to the House with more humane methods of slaughtering——