This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1921. 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.
| Speaker | Context |
|---|---|
| LORD STUART OF WORTLEY | be taken of it) of guarding against injurious misconstruction of motives, which you certainly do not deserve, and I invite you to-day to earn for yourselves nothing worse nor less than the credit of having acted with public spirit, and with a desire for safe reform. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | Very searching influences are at work, as I have already pointed out, attempting in every such case to import a colour, in the overwhelming majority of instances unwarranted, to the facts, and most injurious to the reputation, and wounding to the feelings, of men who are engaged to-day in duties as terrible as those in which, in my judgment, the Forces of the Crown have been called upon to embark in any corner of the world even in the terrible wears of the war. |
| LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE | In many parts of Ireland there are trenches across the roads and the bridges have been blown up, and when that is not the case the action of the heavy military lorries, on roads which have not been built for that purpose, has been so injurious that they are almost impossible for vehicular traffic, because the county councils refuse to give 639 any money for the purpose of mending them. |
| THE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM | But that does not settle the question, because although a particular demand may be limited in extent, it may have a widely injurious effect on the credit of the Marriage Law. |
| LORD JOICEY | Doles are always injurious to the people who receive them, and there is no question that the best type of working man is more anxious for employment than for doles. |
| THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD | The objects of these conditions are, first of all, to secure that such premises as do remain in private hands are conducted in a lawful and orderly manner; and, secondly, to secure that unfair competition against the Liquor Management Board, either by "cutting prices or selling liquor of injuriously high strength, or in any other way, is prevented. |
| Mr. ASQUITH | If it is wrong, as it is wrong, for people in pursuit of their own ideals of freedom and emancipation to resort to criminal methods, that offence is a greater offence, because it is more far-reaching in its consequences, it is more demoralising in its character, it is more injurious and dishonouring, when these methods are borrowed and pursued by those who are responsible for the pure, ovenhanded, and impartial administration of the law. |
| Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL | On the other hand, there has been an announcement of the terms of the Reparations Treaty, and by that announcement we can see that the Government is proposing to take from Germany quantities of goods—raw materials and finished articles—so vast that the effect must be most serious and injurious to the trade life of this country. |
| Mr. BARTLEY DENNISS | I believe that it is as near perfection as the Treasury would permit me to bring it, and uninformed criticism, added to that which has already been made in the Press, might be very injurious to its future." Nobody who heard the speech would for a moment dream of doing anything that the right hon. Gentleman deprecates in that direction. |
| LORD SOUTHWARK | It would injuriously affect large and important businesses, which have been and are being built up by outdoor advertisements, and it is as unjustifiable as it would be injurious in its effect. |
| LORD SOUTHWARK | It would injuriously affect large and important businesses, which have been and are being built up by outdoor advertisements, and it is as unjustifiable as it would be injurious in its effect. |
| THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH (THE EARL OF ONSLOW) | : My Lords, in reply to the noble Lord who has just spoken the present law with regard to advertisements is governed by the Advertisements Regulation Act of 1907, by which a local authority has power to make by-laws for the regulation and control of hoardings when they exceed 12 feet in height; and has power to regulate, or restrict, and prevent the exhibition of advertisements which injuriously affect the amenities of a public park or pleasure promenade, or destroy the natural beauty of the landscape. |
| THE EARL OF ANCASTER | It is no doubt very important that injurious weeds should be dealt with, but I do not think this is a very convenient way of dealing with the matter. |
| THE EARL OF ANCASTER | Perhaps in a new Bill a more efficacious way of tackling the pest of injurious weeds might be discovered than could be done by the cumbrous methods provided under the Agriculture Act. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | I should like to point out that the Amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Dynevor, went further, because it enabled the Minister of Agriculture to schedule from time to time lists of injurious weeds, by Order which should lie on the Table of both Houses. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | I should like to point out that, although in certain parts of the country these weeds undoubtedly are seriously troublesome, there are other parts of the country where other weeds are more serious pests, and, in order to meet local difficulties, they would undoubtedly have to be scheduled eventually amongst injurious weeds. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | My first Amendment, which is purely drafting, is to leave out in line I of paragraph (8) the word "applies" and to insert"shall apply." Then I add subsequently, in line 5 of the same paragraph, "and such other injurious weeds as the Minister may, from time to time, by regulation prescribe." I wish to remind the noble Earl that under the Agriculture Act there is a provision for the making of Regulations prescribing the injurious weeds to which this subsection applies. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | My first Amendment, which is purely drafting, is to leave out in line I of paragraph (8) the word "applies" and to insert"shall apply." Then I add subsequently, in line 5 of the same paragraph, "and such other injurious weeds as the Minister may, from time to time, by regulation prescribe." I wish to remind the noble Earl that under the Agriculture Act there is a provision for the making of Regulations prescribing the injurious weeds to which this subsection applies. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | May I also remind your Lordships that there are several Acts now being administered by the Ministry of Agriculture—notably, the Injurious Insects and Pests Act—under which it is possible for the Ministry to make lists of pests which are injuring agriculture and which ought to be dealt with in a similar manner to noxious weeds? |
| LORD KNARESBOROUGH | I have been a user of the port of Hull for over forty years, and I am also Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Chamber of Shipping, and there has been no complaint made by any user of the port of Hull that the Government measure is going to be injurious to shipping." I will not quote all his speech, because it may fatigue your Lordships. |
| LORD KNARESBOROUGH | To begin with, his interest in shipping many times exceeds his interest in railways, but he is a perfectly independent man, and he certainly would not go against the interests of Hull if he thought that this grouping were going to be injurious. |
| Lord H. CECIL | Fiscal autonomy may be worked in a manner altogether injurious to this country. |
| Mr. LYNN | I submit that this Agreement—for I prefer to call it an Agreement rather than a Treaty—will, if it is carried out, be injurious, not only to the Empire, but to Ireland itself. |
| Mr. KILEY | asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Czecho-Slovak Government have recently completed a commercial treaty which gives certain preferences to goods of French manufacture imported into their country; whether they have made proposals to the British Government for a similar treaty, but owing to objection raised by his Department to the effect that any such treaty might interfere with the working of the Safeguarding of Industries Act the suggested treaty has not been concluded; and, if this is so, whether 372 he is prepared to receive the views of traders as to the injurious effects which such a refusal may have on the export of British manufactured goods to Czecho-Slovakia? |
Injurious weeds and the law | Why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law