This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1934. 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 |
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| LORD SNELL | Now that is a fact which appears to me to be injurious to the 96 character of the House as a political assembly." What chance would there be of that proportion being altered in a reformed House? |
| LORD STRACHIE | Another point which was dealt with in the debates on the Committee stage was directed to ensuring that where a licensee bored for petroleum, and thereby injuriously affected underlying minerals, there should be a procedure whereby in a proper case compensation should be paid for such injurious affection. |
| LORD STRACHIE | Another point which was dealt with in the debates on the Committee stage was directed to ensuring that where a licensee bored for petroleum, and thereby injuriously affected underlying minerals, there should be a procedure whereby in a proper case compensation should be paid for such injurious affection. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | I have put down an Amendment myself to remove any possible doubt, and this point therefore will be dealt with when we reach the Amendment which appears in relation to Clause 10, page 5, line 24—namely: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring, or as enabling the Board of Trade to confer, on any person, whether acting on behalf of His Majesty or not, any right which he does not enjoy apart from this Act to enter on or interfere with land." The noble Lord asked me a second question to ensure that where a licensee bored for petroleum, and thereby 391 injuriously affected underlying minerals, there should be a procedure whereby in a proper case compensation should be paid for such injurious affection. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | I have put down an Amendment myself to remove any possible doubt, and this point therefore will be dealt with when we reach the Amendment which appears in relation to Clause 10, page 5, line 24—namely: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring, or as enabling the Board of Trade to confer, on any person, whether acting on behalf of His Majesty or not, any right which he does not enjoy apart from this Act to enter on or interfere with land." The noble Lord asked me a second question to ensure that where a licensee bored for petroleum, and thereby 391 injuriously affected underlying minerals, there should be a procedure whereby in a proper case compensation should be paid for such injurious affection. |
| THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR (THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY) | I am sure we have every reason to be grateful for the noble Lord's intervention, but the noble Lord, in moving this Amendment, I think desires to call attention to the fact that where a licensee obtains by voluntary arrangements with landowners rights over land which are necessary for his operations, there is no provision in the Bill for safeguarding the amenities of the locality or for dealing with questions of compensation for what is known as injurious affection. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDEERY | If injurious affection is likely to arise, it may equally happen whether the operations are to be carried on by a licensee who has secured access to land by a 511 voluntary arrangement with a landowner, or whether that access has been gained by an order of the Court. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDEERY | In the first place any persons injuriously affected would have to rely on their Common Law rights. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDEERY | If the surface is injuriously affected those owners over whose land the pipe line is laid would come under the proceedings of this Bill, and one would imagine that the question of compensation would be decided at the beginning of the proceedings, but if there is a leakage in the pipe, and if the ground is injuriously affected, it seems to me that under the Common Law practice of this country they would have their rights retained for them at Common Law. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDEERY | If the surface is injuriously affected those owners over whose land the pipe line is laid would come under the proceedings of this Bill, and one would imagine that the question of compensation would be decided at the beginning of the proceedings, but if there is a leakage in the pipe, and if the ground is injuriously affected, it seems to me that under the Common Law practice of this country they would have their rights retained for them at Common Law. |
| THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON | If you look at Clause 6, who is to settle whether it "would injuriously affect either the health or the comfort of persons residing in the neighbourhood of the track"? |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | : Under the Bill the licensing authority may refuse to grant a licence in respect of any track if they are satisfied that the grant of a licence would, first of all, injuriously affect the health or comfort of persons residing in the neighbourhood or would be detrimental to the interests of persons receiving instruction in any school or institution in that neighbourhood; or, secondly, would seriously impair the amenities of the neighbourhood or would result in undue congestion of traffic or would seriously prejudice the preservation of law and order. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | The licensing authority are to be satisfied that: "it would injuriously affect either the health or the comfort of persons residing in the neighbourhood of the track, or be detrimental to the interests of persons receiving instruction, or residing in any school or institution in that neighbourhood." If the noble Lord does not want those words inserted, I do not quite understand what he means. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | The object of requiring a fresh application for a licence at the end of seven years is to give the local authority an opportunity of considering the circumstances afresh in the light of local conditions which may then exist and of deciding whether the conditions have so changed that the continued provision of betting facilities would seriously impair local amenities or would injuriously affect schools or institutions or new centres of population which had sprung up since the original grant of the licence. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY | The Bill provides that various interested parties—such as the Police, persons residing in the neighbourhood and the local authority of any adjoining district—may make representations to the licensing authority; but under Lord Askwith's proposal these interested parties would have no right of appeal against a decision by the licensing authority to grant a licence although they might consider themselves very injuriously affected thereby. |
| VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELWOOD | If it becomes known that all cases of exceeding the speed limit are mentioned on the licence it will not in fact have so deleterious an effect as now an endorsement of the licence has, because the latter conveys not only that the speed limit was exceeded but was exceeded in a way that was injurious to the public. |
| THIS EARL OF LISTOWEL | We would humbly suggest that this process, if gradual, would not be one that would be either costly to the country or injurious to English law. |
| LORD MOTTISTONE | Following that, the same evening appeared still more injurious statements 180 by the Evening News, which is also controlled by Lord Rothermere: "To overestimate danger is the part of wisdom. |
| LORD MOTTISTONE | "We are not so much concerned with the reasons for Lord Mottistone's distortion of the facts"— injurious words those— "he was pleading for a bigger Army and Navy and discounting, as bigger Army and bigger Navy men habitually do, the potentialities of aerial warfare—as with the facts themselves. |
| THE MARQUESS OF READING | I do not know, I have not heard yet, what the Government's answer is with regard to what has been said, but what I do feel—and I hope that your Lordships, irrespective of Party in a matter of this kind, will agree with the view—is that this clause, with the injurious effect which it may be said to have upon Lord Justice Slesser and the indignity which it may be thought to put upon him, must be dealt with in some manner, that it should absolutely disappear and be removed from the Bill. |
| THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM | In Clause 6, subsection (1), paragraphs (a), (i) and (ii), it states that the local authority may refuse a licence if it is satisfied that the existence or user of the track would injuriously affect the health or the comfort of persons residing in the neighbourhood of that track, or would seriously impair the amenities of that neighbourhood. |
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