Appendix
C
Email from the Committee Specialist to Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Proposal for the Regulatory
Reform (Deer) (England and Wales) Order 2007: request for information
I refer to our telephone conversation today regarding
the answers supplied to the Committee's questions 16 -18, dealing
with the RRO proposal on deer.
In order to assist the Committee's consideration
of the response can I please ask you to comment on two matters
arising from the text of the joint answer given to these questions:
1. A) Please explain the basis on which the Department
states that future licences to shoot deer at night under section
8 of the Deer Act 1991 as proposed to be amended will be issued
subject to a binding condition on the number of animals which
may be killed. Is this based on the legal effect of the proposed
Order or a statement of future policy of the licensing authorities?
B) Does the Department consider the Order should not itself provide
that licences should always be issued subject to a limit on the
number of animals which may be killed under the licence and if
so why?
2. Please explain the basis for the Department's
statements about future policies of the licensing authorities
should the proposed Order be approved, such as the assertion "The
licensing authorities will...in all cases conduct at least one
site visit to assess the case, before an application is approved".
I should be very grateful for your further comments
in relation to these issues.
23 February 2007
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