(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.
