Hunting: Crossbows
(asked on 7th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to introduce legislation to ban hunting with bows and arrows, and crossbows.
This question was answered on 15th September 2015
The management of wildlife is a devolved matter. In England and Wales, the use of a bow or crossbow to kill or take any wild animal is currently prohibited under section 11(b) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. There are no plans to allow bow hunting in England or amend the Act in this respect.