This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1926. 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 BLEDISLOE | As the Bill left this House the clause gave power to serve a notice upon a person by whose act or default the unsatisfactory condition of the drain was due, but unless something was actually done by a person which caused the flow of water to be impeded, or unless he failed to carry out some legal obligation imposed by an award or as a condition of tenure, there was no power to prevent agricultural land becoming thus injuriously affected. |
| LORD ARNOLD | He points out that the return to the gold standard has been injurious to the coal trade and, in addition to that, he piles up a formidable indictment against the Government, setting forth some of the other harmful consequences which have followed from the gold standard policy of last summer. |
| LORD GAINFORD | would change competitive industry into a monopoly, which would adjust prices at its discretion." The Chamber of Shipping, a very large body of representative shipowners in this country, say:— "This Council is profoundly convinced that Government interference whether in ownership or management of the mines or in the supply and distribution of labour for the mines would not increase but rather decrease their efficiency." The Newcastle-on-Tyne Commercial Exchange passed a resolution the other day in which they stated that in their view "the interference by legislation with freedom of labour and employment will tend to diminish the efficiency of that trade, and will have an injurious effect upon the other industries of the country." They go on to call the attention of the Government "to the grave dangers to the other industries of this country from the system of central selling agencies in the coal trade." and say that "any such scheme has for its object the artificial raising of the price of coal." So far as I know, all business men are opposed to these proposals and to the violation of certain principles which is committed by this Bill. |
| LORD BLEDISLOE | For this reason, that in these matters most civilised countries are, unfortunately, very far ahead of us, because they have paid greater attention to the fact that the health of the community is undoubtedly affected injuriously by the consumption or ingestion of polluted milk and taken more drastic action in consequence. |
| LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY | It may actually be injurious to a British manufacturer, for, if he distributes his advertisement of starch, of mustard or of aerated water or whatever it may be that he is selling, and marks it with the inscription "Buy So-and-so's Starch," or mustard or whatever it may be, and at the bottom there is printed the word "Foreign" or "Made in Czecho-Slovakia," he may be compelled to injure himself, because he is stating to the 1407 persons to whom he sends the advertisement that which is not indeed a fact—namely, that his production is of foreign make. |
| LORD PARMOOR | That would be a "default." Apart from that, as I understand the noble Lord, if the land of the owner is injuriously affected so as to become waterlogged, the expense may be thrown upon him though both the drain and the land may belong to the same owner. |
| LORD JESSEL | : My Lords, the noble Earl opposite apparently got up to curse the Bill, but finished by blessing it, as, I am sure he would, because he has agreed, like so many other noble Lords in this House, that smoke, especially in large towns, is most injurious to the public health. |
| VISCOUNT FITZALAN OF DERWENT | There is in my view not one of these appliances that is not either injurious or unhealthy. |
| LORD ARNOLD | Again and again during the debates on the Finance Bill of last year words to that effect were used, words which implied that whatever the charges were, whether taxation, or rates, or wages, they were all equally injurious to industry. |
| LORD DANESFORT | That object, I take it, is to make Regulations beyond those contained in the existing Factory and Mines Acts for the employment of young persons between the ages of 14 and 18 and to protect them from excessive hours of labour and injurious conditions of employment. |
| LORD DESBOROUGH | These birds do receive protection during the nesting season from the general public, but they are rather common birds and the owner or occupier of land will have the power, if they increase to too great an extent or are injurious to crops, of keeping them down. |
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