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Proceeding contribution from Baroness Byford (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 27 February 2006. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill.

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

moved Amendment No. 297:"Page 62, line 39, leave out from ““sample”” to end of line 40 and insert ““included power to take a sample from a seal (whether alive or dead) for the purpose of testing for disease””" The noble Baroness said: This is a probing amendment to establish why we should legally be able to take samples from live imported destructive animals such as deer and badgers, but not from live seals. I understand there is great concern about the form of maritime flu that appears to be killing a large number of seals, and I had expected that testing for the disease would not be restricted to dead seals. I beg to move.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
679 c66 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Access Animal welfare Codes of practice Birds Agriculture Badgers Countryside Biodiversity Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Deer Land Environment protection Environment Infectious diseases Land use Imports Powers of entry Protection Nature conservation Pesticides National parks Trade Rights of way Right of search Wildlife Road signs and markings Rural areas Seals Sites of special scientific interest Avian influenza Parrots Natural England Bracken
Legislation
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill 2005-06
Link
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