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Hunting Act (Amendment) Bill

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Proposal for Amendments to the Hunting Act 2004
 

Hunting Act (Amendment) Bill

Part 1, Section 1 add new paras 1(2) and 1(3) as follows;

(2) For the purposes of this Section the phrase 'hunts a wild mammal with a dog' means - causes or permits a dog to seek out, pursue, attack, injure or kill a wild mammal.
 

(3) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under this Section if he shows that his dog is kept as a household pet, was being normally exercised at the time, has never been trained or used in any form of hunting and that he made reasonable attempts to prevent the dog from pursuing the wild mammal.


Part 2, Section 6

Add power to imprison offender for 6 months


Part 2, Section 6

Add new clause allowing courts to disqualify an individual offender convicted of an offence under Section 1 from owning, keeping or taking part in keeping animals.


Part 2, Section 9

Add power for forfeiture of all dogs belonging to a registered Hunt


Part 3, Section 11

Delete 'pursuit' and insert 'hunting'


Part 3, Section 10
 
Hunts to be made responsible for ensuring their staff and officers don't break Hunting Act


Schedule 1.1
Make those carrying out the stalking/flushing be able to show that it was necessary and that there was no other satisfactory means of achieving the specified purpose[s]


Schedule 1.1

Remove 'participation in a field trial' from the allowable purposes for stalking/flushing


Schedule 1.2

Preferably, delete this Exemption entirely. Failing that, bar operations under the 'Gamekeeper's Exemption' from being carried out in conjunction with any form of simulated hunting of a wild mammal
Bar digging into the underground refuge of a wild mammal where operations under Gamekeepers' Exemption are being undertaken, unless can be shown it is necessary to rescue the terrier


Schedule 1.3, 1.,4, 1.,5 & 1.6

Restrict the number of dogs allowed to hunt to two in each case


Schedule 1.9

Insist that all dogs used be kept leashed at all times


NEW

Create Code of Practice for 'trail hunting' which, as with the CoP attached to the Gamekeeper's Exemption, would have the force of law.  This, at a minimum, to insist trails are not laid through areas where wild mammals are likely to be found and that quarry-based scents are not used.


Section 3
 
 

 
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