Part of Hunting Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 25th January 2001.
May I read to the hon. Gentleman paragraph 1? It states:
A person commits an offence if he hunts a wild mammal with a dog.
Paragraph 8(1) says:
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraph 1 to prove that . . . the conduct to which the charge relates consisted of hunting rodents and so on. I may be being obtuse, but is not amendment No. 1 tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury entirely consistent with that?