This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1923. 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 |
|---|---|
| THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (THE MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON) | We intervened on many occasions—sometimes to prevent direct collisions between French and Germans in that area; sometimes (and I have a word to say upon this point in a moment) to prevent any injurious reaction on our own trade in the neighbouring territories; sometimes to resist any infringement of the Treaty rights of Great Britain; sometimes to stop precipitate or high-handed action on the part of local authorities. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | Another was that the Judge hearing such cases, and I suppose other cases too, should be at liberty to prohibit the publication of that which he thought might be injurious to the public morals. |
| THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH (THE EARL OF ONSLOW) | Your Lordships are aware that it is the duty of local authorities to have their districts inspected from time to time with a view to ascertaining whether any dwelling-houses therein are in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, and it is also their duty to secure that unsatisfactory houses are dealt with. |
| THE EARL OF ANCASTER | I should further point out that Clause 8 increases the protection afforded to fisheries, as such, in the following respects:—(1), It makes it an offence to discharge polluting matter into any waters containing fish—not merely into those containing salmon—thereby greatly extending the scope of the present law; (2), if the present Bill becomes law it will no longer be necessary to prove actual poisoning or killing of fish traceable to a particular factory, but only that matter is being put into the water by the defendants which causes the water to be poisonous or injurious to fish—a much easier thing to prove; (3), not merely fish, but the spawning grounds, spawn and food of fish are protected; and (4), manufacturers and others seeking to avail themselves of the defence of which the noble Duke now seeks to deprive them must satisfy the court that they had used the best practicable means 306 within a reasonable cost, not merely, as under the existing law, to render the matter complained of harmless, but to prevent it from doing injury to fish, or to the spawning grounds, spawn or food of fish. |
| VISCOUNT WIMBORNE | The taxation 399 of this country is extremely injurious to trade. |
| LORD PARMOOR | It says that "This state of things"—which I have indicated—"is highly injurious to" the "international financial reputation" of this country. |
| LORD PARMOOR | I cannot understand why in matters of this kind we seem deliberately to interfere injuriously with the international financial reputation of our country. |
Injurious weeds and the law | Why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law