This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1920. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
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| Brigadier-General SURTEES | asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the conditions under which the office staff and many servants live and work in certain large hotels is onerous, exacting, and injurious to health; that it is impossible for many of them to take concerted action for better wages and improved living conditions; and whether he will consider the advisability of appointing a Departmental Committee to inquire into the question of the conditions of employment of the nondescript workers in such establishments and to report? |
| Mr. STEPHEN WALSH | We have long passed the stage of the old economists who held that it was "Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost." We have seen in a very real sense that there is no individual, however humble, in the community but who, if left unattended and unguarded, reacts injuriously upon the fortunes of the whole community, and to-day there is, I am sure, a deeper and a nobler sense of civic responsibility than ever before. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF FOOD (Mr. McCurdy) | I will only say that when you come to exercise a control which is not to have an injurious effect on the one hand on the trader and on the consumer, and on the other you simply cannot approach the problem with any hard and 1881 fast rules of any kind. |
| Mr. BRIANT | The House of Commons itself twenty-seven years ago—and this shows that the House of Commons does not do things in a hurry—passed a resolution to the effect that unnecessarily long hours of opening are injurious to health. |
| Mr. DONALD | It is evident that such long hours, especially where a shop is crowded, ill ventilated and lighted with gas, must be injurious and often ruinous to health, especially in the case of women. |
| Mr. CAMPBELL | We all know from our own experience how tiring it is to be standing on our feet all day—much more tiring than taking vigorous exercise—and we need not be one of the distinguished medical men who adorn this House to realise how injurious this must be, especially in the case of women. |
| Mr. PRETYMAN | If they are to represent this or that interest it will be most injurious to agriculture. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | They can appeal, secondly, on the point, Will it injuriously affect the interests of the parties interested? |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | Until the arbitrator has given his award, there will be no cultivation Order carried out at all, and the award will only be given if it is proved that the change proposed is in the national interest and that it will not injuriously affect the interests of those who are interested in the land. |
| Captain FITZROY | The Order, for instance, must not injuriously affect the interest of the landowner, and so on. |
| Captain FITZROY | But in an industry like agriculture, no government, no arbitrator, indeed nobody could possibly say, when a field is ploughed up, whether it is going to be injurious to the individual or not. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | : I beg to move, in paragraph (ii), to leave out paragraph (b), and to insert instead thereof the following new paragraphs: "(b) that the production of food on any land can in the national interest and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land be maintained or increased by the occupier by means of an improvement in the existing method of cultivation or by the use of the land for arable cultivation; or "(c) that the occupier of land has unreasonably neglected to execute thereon the necessary works of maintenance being, in the case of land occupied by a tenant, works which he is liable to execute under the conditions of his tenancy or rendered necessary by his act or default; or "(d) that the owner of land in the occupation of a tenant has unreasonably neglected to execute thereon the necessary works of maintenance, not being works to which the preceding paragraph applies." This is a definite Amendment, around which really the greater part of the discussion of the last Amendment took place. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | Secondly, before any improvement of an existing method of cultivation, or before a demand for arable land, can be carried into effect persons interested can appeal to an arbitrator as to whether or not they will be injuriously affected. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | Before we can get a single ploughing-up Order, before we can issue an Order that a man may not lay down to grass land which is already arable, it has to be proved to the arbitrator that it is in the national interest, and that it will not injuriously affect either tenant or landlord. |
| Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY | Take the words "without injuriously affecting." Who is to say what is going injuriously to affect? |
| Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY | Take the words "without injuriously affecting." Who is to say what is going injuriously to affect? |
| Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY | A man is interested in land which is affected injuriously, and the injurious effects may not develop for two or three years. |
| Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER CLAY | A man is interested in land which is affected injuriously, and the injurious effects may not develop for two or three years. |
| Sir E. POLLOCK | In paragraph (b) notice is to be served "that the production of food on any land can in the national interest and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land be maintained or increased by the occupier by means of an improvement in the existing method of cultivation or by the use of the land for arable cultivation." 513 But it is excluded, as I have pointed out, that you should definitely dictate what crops should he grown. |
| Mr. ROYCE | There is the further safeguard that if any person's interests are injuriously affected no action may be taken. |
| Mr. ROYCE | I rather regret that the provision with regard to injuriously affecting any person concerned in the land has been included. |
| Mr. GARDINER | They are, therefore, well able to ensure that nothing injurious to the cultivation or the country results from the orders they give. |
| Mr. PENNEFATHER | If power to inflict a capital tax would be injurious in this country, it would be doubly injurious and dangerous in a country like Ireland. |
| Mr. PENNEFATHER | If power to inflict a capital tax would be injurious in this country, it would be doubly injurious and dangerous in a country like Ireland. |
| The PRIME MINISTER | The independence of Ireland as a Sovereign State we would not recognise, not merely because it would be injurious to the United Kingdom, but because it would be injurious to Ireland. |
| The PRIME MINISTER | The independence of Ireland as a Sovereign State we would not recognise, not merely because it would be injurious to the United Kingdom, but because it would be injurious to Ireland. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | It has got to be proved first of all that the proposed change of cultivation is in the national interest and that it would not injuriously affect the interests of any person interested in the soil. |
| Mr. SHORTT | : A conference was recently held between the factory department and representatives of the Employers' Association, at which the latter stated that while in the absence of any definite evidence they objected to the practice being certified as injurious to health and prohibited by Order, their Association would be prepared to recommend its members to provide hand-threaded shuttles for use wherever practicable, on condition that the operatives on their side furnished an assurance that the shuttles so provided would be used by the workers. |
| Mr. SHORTT | As regards the latter part of the question, I may point out that, as the Act stands, I have no power to propose a Regulation prohibiting shuttle-kissing, unless I am satisfied that it is injurious to health, and that the representatives of the Home Office and the Local Government Board, who were appointed in 1911 to inquire into this question, reported that in no instance had they found any proof of disease having been transmitted by this practice. |
| Major MACKENZIE WOOD | : I beg to move, as, an Amendment to the proposed Amendment in paragraph (b,) to leave out the words "and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land." This paragraph proposes to give power to the Board of Agriculture to control agriculture in a certain way, but these 1732 powers are not to be exercised if they would injuriously affect persons interested in the land. |
| Major MACKENZIE WOOD | : I beg to move, as, an Amendment to the proposed Amendment in paragraph (b,) to leave out the words "and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land." This paragraph proposes to give power to the Board of Agriculture to control agriculture in a certain way, but these 1732 powers are not to be exercised if they would injuriously affect persons interested in the land. |
| Major MACKENZIE WOOD | The Ministry of Agriculture cannot possibly know all these persons, and if they are told they are not to injuriously affect these persons interested, it means that they must start an investigation before they make any order as to who are interested in the particular piece of land. |
| Major MACKENZIE WOOD | Another point is that these powers are not to be exercised if they would injuriously affect persons interested in the slightest degree, even although the public advantage on the other side is immeasurably greater. |
| Major MACKENZIE WOOD | Surely this is a question when the balance should be struck between the injurious affection on the one hand and the public advantage that is likely to flow from the control on the other. |
| Major BARNES | After a decision has been arrived at by those persons to whom control is entrusted it can be defeated if it be shown, in the first place, that the exercise of control will not be in the national interest, or, in the second place, that it will injuriously affect the interests of any person interested in the land. |
| Major BARNES | Having, with the exercise of all their local knowledge and acting with a full sense of their responsibility, come to the conclusion to put their powers of control into operation, they may be met by the provision in this Bill that the action they propose to take will injuriously affect some person or other interested in the land. |
| Major BARNES | If in the exercise of their discretion the responsible authority do something which does injuriously affect some person interested in the land, then there ought to be proper compensation, and that compensation should be provided in the Bill. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | I justified the granting of some measure of control largely by the fact that we were going to take care that the interests of those who were interested in the land were not injuriously affected. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | In cases where an improvement in the method of cultivation will be a real improvement and where a change of cultivation will lead to greater production, we propose that there shall be an improvement or a change of cultivation, but, if the interests of those who are interested in the land are injuriously affected in the long run, it must prove- 1737 that the proposed improvement or change of cultivation will be of an uneconomic character. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | Are they proposing something which will or will not injuriously affect those interests in the soil? |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | If it will injuriously affect those interests, it is clear that the change of cultivation will be an uneconomic change. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | If, on the other hand, it does not injuriously affect those interests, probably it will be an improvement of cultivation and one that in the national interests should be made. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | That being so, we must adhere to our principle that before any Order be carried into effect it shall be ascertained by an appeal to an arbitrator whether or not the interests of the persons concerned will be injuriously affected. |
| The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Sir Arthur Boscawen) | If a man appeals against a Cultivation Order on the ground that his interests will be injuriously affected, he will have in the first instance to prove to the arbitrator that he is interested in the land. |
| Major WHELER | I agree that there may be shrubberies and game preserves round about which might injuriously affect the arable land. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | No order could be made upon them which would adversely affect their interests without their having the right to appeal to an arbitrator, and if it was held that any cultivation order would interfere with 1841 the powers of the local authority, with regard, for example, to their waterworks, and the arbitrator could not decide that such an order was in the national interests, again, they can appeal on the question whether they, as owners, would not be injuriously affected. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | Obviously they would be injuriously affected. |
| Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY | : There is not sufficient evidence of the injurious effect of theatre queues to justify me in taking action in the direction suggested by the hon. Member. |
| Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY | : The answer says that the Minister of Health does not think there is sufficient evidence of any injurious effect. |
| Mr. HAILWOOD | I am told that rum is the least injurious of all spirits, and also that it is the most warming, and I am convinced that it is very efficacious, the last thing on a cold night, if you are suffering from a chill or cold, in warding off the serious effects of that cold. |
| Mr. DONNELLY | I feel deeply on the question of Ulster because all my interests are bound up in Ulster, but I am compelled to say that so far as this Bill is concerned I believe that it will be injurious to Ulster, as it will be injurious to the whole of Ireland. |
| Mr. DONNELLY | I feel deeply on the question of Ulster because all my interests are bound up in Ulster, but I am compelled to say that so far as this Bill is concerned I believe that it will be injurious to Ulster, as it will be injurious to the whole of Ireland. |
| Mr. RENDALL | How can it be injurious to the ideal of marriage if the law insists that when marriage fails, that when it is frustrated, that when the marriage is no marriage, the innocent party should be allowed to end it, and thereby be enabled, perhaps, to achieve a more ideal marriage? |
| Major PRESCOTT | asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that large numbers of teachers in the elementary schools who are 1816 entrusted with the actual work of forming the minds of the incoming generation are still being paid at the rate of unskilled labour; whether he is aware of the fact that amongst these teachers there is a spirit abroad that is restless and prevalent enough to be injurious to the exercise of a beneficial influence upon the younger generation; whether he has read the reports of speeches delivered from time to time at recent meetings of the National Union of Teachers complaining about the rate of pay; and if he can make any announcement as to the steps proposed to be taken to end this unsatisfactory state of affairs? |
| Sir W. RAEBURN | There are a great many points of view from which it would be injurious to business if we had a Parliament of our own, but there is not time now to enter into that. |
| Sir A. BOSCAWEN | We also make it illegal for any seed to be sold which has more than a prescribed percentage of injurious weeds. |
| The PRIME MINISTER | As far as I can do so, without giving information which would be injurious to the efficacy of the action which we might take. |
| Mr. ASQUITH | They said, "If the communities which border on the frontiers of Soviet Russia whose independence or de facto autonomy they have recognised were to approach them to ask for advice as to what attitude they should take with regard to Soviet Russia, the Allied Governments would reply that they would not accept responsibility to advise them to continue a war which might be injurious to their own interests, and still less would they advise them to adopt a policy of aggression towards Soviet 276 Russia," a very proper conclusion, if I may say so with all respect, but an impotent conclusion, perfectly impotent. |
| Colonel GRETTON | asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that many complaints and allegations have been made of the bad quality and injurious results arising from the consumption of certain imported potable spirits; if the Ministry has taken any steps to test the truth or otherwise of such statements; if the Ministry has powers under the Food and Drugs Act to condemn imported potable spirits of bad quality; and, if so, have such powers ever been used? |
| Dr. ADDISON | Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts the vendor of any article of food or drink which is either injurious to health or not of the nature, substance, and quality demanded is liable to prosecution. |
| The PRIME MINISTER | Words of that kind, which have no meaning here—where everyone knows that they do not represent the actual state of things—have a very injurious effect when they are communicated outside by means of the Press and are distorted in newspaper articles in order to convey the impression that these meetings of the Supreme Council are a kind of secret conclave, where there are conspiracies between leading statesmen of various countries, in order to transact business of a kind which none of them would dare to reveal to their own public. |
| Mr. CHAMBERLAIN | This result may be delayed for a time by a fall in consumption; but an increase of production was a necessary condition of a permanent reduction in the cost of living, and whatever the immediate effect of the strike on prices, it appears to me that it must in the long run be injurious to the national welfare in this as in every other respect. |
| Mr. WIGNALL | The Court is of opinion that Labour frequently or constantly under-employed is injurious to the interests of the workers, the ports, and the public, and that it is discreditable to society. |
| The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George) | For the moment it has not been merely unhelpful, but very injurious. |
| Mr. WALSH | I am speaking 1611 words which will re-echo in the hearts of millions of people outside this House, members of trade unions, when they sec this position, when I say that to ask that the whole Bill should be taken in eight or nine hours is simply flouting Members of this House and their responsibilities, and I am quite sure that the reaction will be very injurious to the Government itself. |
| Mr. CHAMBERLAIN | In view, however, of the postponement of the latter, His Majesty's Government felt it to be impossible to continue to maintain a threat which injuriously affected British interests without offering any real security for the execution of the Treaty, since, so long as private German property in this country, 1922 and, in particular, private bank balances belonging to Germans were exposed to seizure, it was fairly certain that, if the moment ever arrived when we desired to put Paragraph 18 into operation, there would be no appreciable property to seize. |
| Mr. FISHER | I admit that if it can be proved that the inclusion of Ireland in the fiscal system, the Customs system of the United Kingdom, had been attended by economic prostration, if it could be shown that this connection had been injurious to Irish agriculture, commerce and industry, if it had resulted in a falling off in the bank balances and was inconsistent with Irish prosperity, then I should say, whatever other predilections we might have, there would be a grave and substantial case for considering an alteration of the fiscal arrangements. |
| THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (LORD LEE OF FARERAM) | I think you will agree, and I know from experience of the British farmer, that if prices are suddenly in-creased from anything like £5 to £25 per ton the inevitable result would be that he would cease to purchase, and the fertility of he soil would be injuriously affected at once. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | I can assure your Lordships that I personally am very much alive to the point of urgency, because quite apart from the fact that the Government is deeply pledged to this measure, I, unfortunately, have accumulating and insistent evidence that the uncertainty with regard to the future of agriculture, which is intensified by the delays that unfortunately but inevitably have taken place in connection with the Bill, is having a discouraging and injurious effect upon the whole industry. |
| THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (LORD) LEE OF FARE-HAM) | We then make it unlawful either to sell, or knowingly to sow, seeds containing more than the prescribed percentage of injurious weeds. |
| THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY | Anything which is obviously injurious to the health and convenience of the ordinary population ought not to be allowed to take place, and the noble Lord is quite right in calling attention to this point. |
| LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH | The main provision of this Bill is to enable by-laws to be made for regulating, restricting, or preventing advertisements in places where they affect injuriously the amenities of a public park or pleasure promenade or disfigure the natural beauty of a landscape. |
| THE EARL OF ONSLOW | Under Section 2 (2) of the Act of 1907 by-laws can only be made with regard to advertisements exhibited in such a manner "as to affect injuriously the amenities of a public park or pleasure promenade or to disfigure the natural beauty of a landscape." There is no such limit to regulations under this Bill, and it would be open to a local authority to use 791 the powers not merely for preventing the disfigurement of their district, but for any other purpose. |
| LORD RIBBLESDALE | But I could quite believe that an agricultural committee might come down to inspect some of the land (I farmed some of it myself, and I know acres and acres of it in my part of the world) and might at once say, "This land is being managed badly, and we consider that, without injuriously affecting the persons interested in this land, all this water-logged land must be drained," Well, you could no more get the landlord at the present day in my part of the world to drain this fell land, and you could no more get the tenant to come in, than you could—well, I cannot think of any good synonym, but anyhow it would be impossible. |
| LORD, LEE OF FAREHAM | The arbitrator has to be satisfied, first of all, as to what would be the increase in the production of food effected; secondly, that it would be in the national interest; and, thirdly, that it would not be injurious to any persons interested in the land. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | : To let paragraph (b) stand down to the word "cultivation" and to leave out "or by the use of the land for arable cultivation." In ease of any Orders issued tinder paragraph (b) the occupier of the land upon whom the Order is served has the protection of the restriction to which I have referred, "in the national interest and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land," whereas if it were under paragraph (a), under the definition of good husbandry he would not have those protections and, therefore, would be exposed in sonic cases to possible arbitrary action on the part of a committee, or even of the Minister. |
| THE EARL OF SELBORNE | He pointed out that under paragraph (a) you may provide effectively for the proper farming of grass land and for the proper laying down of land to grass, but you are not protecting the farmer or the owner to the same extent as you are in paragraph (b) if the words stand as at present, because remember the words of paragraph (b) are as follows: "that the production of food on any land can, in the national interest and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land, be maintained or increased." I think those words are very important, and although I am a strenuous supporter of Lord Clinton's Amendment in respect of the definition of good husbandry, I do not think we shall be doing the farmer or the owner a good turn if we eliminate those words from the Bill. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | There may be 256 cases in which delay would be injurious in the national interests; and in many cases the whole period would exceed a year. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LINCOLNSHIRE | : I have had experience on this question for over half a century, and its my agreement a with the tenants we have this clause— "At the end of the first, or any subsequent, year of tenancy either the landlord or the tenant, if they deem the rent reserved herein unjust or injurious, may, by giving one calendar mouth's notice to the other party, appeal to arbitration to fix a fair rent between the parties," That has been the custom for nearly 50 years, and during those 50 years on 23,000 acres of land I have only had, except in cases of death, 18 changes of tenancy. |
| LOUD LEE OF FAREHAM | But I am equally clear in my mind that whatever might be the strict merits of the case there would be an impression of unfairness created if you took the one and cut out the other, which would be very injurious to the reputation of your Lordships' House. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LINCOLNSHIRE | I am perfectly certain that nothing would have induced the House of Lords to pass a measure or a clause to which they had any serious objection, and which they thought would be a wrong principle or one injurious to any portion of society. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | It seems to me hard that a tenant who has taken a lease should be injuriously affected because of that fact. |
| LORD SHEFFIELD | I suggest that the Government should in the interests of trade meet us in this respect, because if the President of the Board of Trade had power to vary the list from time to time he could not say he was obliged to include something which would be injurious to the development of this industry. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | There was some discussion of that Amendment in another place, and finally, as a compromise with those who represent the landlord interest in the other House, the following was suggested and agreed to— "A direction under this subsection may authorise the breaking up of meadow land or pasture subject to such conditions as will in the opinion of the Committee secure that the landlord shall not be injuriously affected." As regards some market garden improvements, it is necessary, if the land available is grass land, that it should be broken up, and there will be no hardship if suitable provisions are inserted for the protection of the landlord against loss. |
| Mr. BALFOUR | Take even a class of evil which may at first sight seem to arise directly out of the provisions of the Treaty—I mean the fact that some of these now States show at present little desire for co-operation with their neigh hours and little capacity for it, and the result is that the Zollverein system, which was one of the merits of the Austrian Empire and linked economically together the populations of that part of the world, has been replaced by a commercial and fiscal policy which I have not the slightest doubt is extremely injurious to the parties concerned. |
| Mr. BONAR LAW | : The Allied Governments have agreed on the following conclusions:— If the communities which border on the frontiers of Soviet Russia, and whose in- 1502 dependence or de facto autonomy they have recognised, were to approach them and to ask for advice as to what attitude they should take with regard to Soviet Russia, the Allied Governments would reply that they cannot accept the responsibility of advising them to continue a war which may be injurious to their own interests. |
| Mr. BONAR LAW | Our statement was that advice would be given to these countries that we could not recommend them to go on with a war which might be injurious to their own interests; but if, on the other hand, they were attacked by Soviet Russia inside their own legitimate frontiers, of which we would be the judges, the Allies would give them every possible support. |
| Sir J. D. REES | In the King's Speech it was stated that "experience during the War showed clearly the injurious effects upon national efficiency of the excessive consumption of strong drink—" as to which we had some idea before the War— "and the amelioration both in health and efficiency which followed appropriate measures of regulation and control" That points directly to the Carlisle experiment. |
| Sir J. D. REES | Teetotallers camouflage their measure— It spells Control Board all the same." We are told that experience during the War shows that excessive indulgence in strong drink is injurious. |
| Sir J. D. REES | War which will enable us, for instance, to close any public houses in those areas whose presence it is considered for the moment is injurious and is having a prejudicial effect upon the output of munitions. |
| EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON | My arguments against the institution of an Inquiry apply equally to the production of Papers, and my noble friend Lord Crewe, with his great experience of public affairs, must know perfectly well that nothing could be more injurious at the present moment than the laying of Papers before Parliament. |
| LORD LEE OF FAREHAM | Then, with regard to any order, the arbitrator to whom the appeal goes can only confirm the order if he is satisfied, first, that 732 it will not injuriously affect the interests of any persons connected with the land; secondly, that it will increase production; and, thirdly, that it will be in the national interest. |
| LORD SOMERLEYTON | As was explained by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in another place, His Majesty's Government felt it to be impossible to continue to maintain a threat which injuriously affected British interests without offering any real security for the execution of the Treaty, since, so long as private German property in this country and in particular private bank balances belonging to Germans were exposed to seizure, it was fairly certain that if the moment ever arrived when this country desired to put paragraph 18 into operation there would be no appreciable property to seize. |
| THE MARQUESS OF CREWE | The effect of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of Clause 4— (b) that the production of food on any land can, in the national interest and without injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land, be maintained or increased by the occupier by means of an improvement in the existing method of cultivation or by the use of the land for arable cultivation does, of course, involve that direct interference. |
| LORD HINDLIP | This will make it quite impossible for landowning as a business to continue, and it will have very injurious effects on the credit of the land. |
| LORD HINDLIP | But if they insist on keeping control of new buildings and also in mulcting the owner in such extremely heavy penalties as they propose under the Bill it will make the position of the landowner quite impossible, it will force more land into the market than has ever been forced before, it will increase unrest and have a very injurious effect on the 1183 agricultural industry. |
| EARL RUSSELL | I think it is Clause 5 which prescribes the causes for which, and the manner in which, a registered owner shall be removed from the register, and I think that somewhere else in the Bill the reason given is, that "it is dangerous to health." The words "dangerous to health" or "injurious to health" are of a much narrower scope than the words of the Committee's recommendation, which are "in the public interest." It may well be in the public interest to prohibit medicines on the ground not necessarily that they are actually dangerous to health, but on the ground that they are swindles and fraudulent. |
| VISCOUNT ASTOR | The Bill is also designed to prevent the sale of remedies which may be injurious and prejudicial to the health of the purchaser. |
| VISCOUNT ASTOR | The Committee certainly came to the conclusion, and it will be borne out by any medical practitioner, that it is unwise for any mother to give bromides to her children unless there is proper medical supervision, and that there are many other substances which, if taken in large quantities, are injurious to the individual who takes them. |
| VISCOUNT ASTOR | : I do not want to cover the ground again as to whether there are other drugs than poisons which could be injurious or prejudicial to health if unwisely used, and I suggest to Lord Askwith that, your Lordships having decided the point on Lord Emmott's Amendment, he should not move it here, particularly as there are a certain number of people who know perfectly well that certain drugs which are not poisonous do not agree with them, and it might be wise in certain cases to give them a warning by seeing that these particular drugs are labelled. |
| VISCOUNT ASTOR | We propose to give the Minister the right of withdrawing a remedy or taking a person off the register if, in our opinion, either the remedy is injurious to health or the recommendations sold with the remedy are likely to be injurious. |
| VISCOUNT ASTOR | We propose to give the Minister the right of withdrawing a remedy or taking a person off the register if, in our opinion, either the remedy is injurious to health or the recommendations sold with the remedy are likely to be injurious. |
| LORD PARMOOR | It is a prece lent that will be followed in the future on the grounds that if the majority of the people want to take property they are entitled to take it on terms which are injurious and damaging to the 1060 particular individual. |
| THE EARL OF CRAWFORD | It might be equally injurious to one of our great Dominions if decontrol were premature as to ourselves. |
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