From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is the fine the only intended penalty. Others could include :-
Confiscation and destruction of the hounds,
confiscation and destruction of the horses,
confiscation and destruction of the vehicles and equipment
used to deliver the horses, hounds and people to the hunt,
or used actively during the hunt.
etc.
These thoughts are based on the laws used against poachers
and not of detailed reading of the proposals.
Once a hunt is up and running as a drag hunt I understand
the wording of the act may make it an offence if the hounds
were to deviate onto a real fox trail and run it to ground.
The hunt would have to make realistic effort to prevent this
beforehand (i.e. not laying a trail close to known fox earths)
and during the hunt (i.e. disuading the hounds from following
the scent or killing the fox).
Again from articles not from reading of the proposals themselves.
Regards
Jerry
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