This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1938. 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 EARL OF LISTOWEL | However injurious and undesirable it may be for a page boy of fifteen to be kept at work until ten o'clock at night, with a long interval in the day in order to bring his working hours within the scope of the Bill, it is obviously desirable from the point of view of the business, and unless the Government protect the child one is afraid that advantage will be taken of the loophole that has been left. |
| THE EARL OF LISTOWEL | I should like to emphasize the fact that this is not a Bill to put an end to night baking as such, but only to stop what would generally be agreed as the most objectionable and injurious form of work at bakeries at night. |
| LORD SNELL | : In a speech on a very difficult matter it is important not to be led into words that might be injurious rather than helpful. |
| THE EARL OF LISTOWEL | May I be allowed to anticipate what one fears may be the injurious effects of this lower subsidy to local authorities on account of slum clearance? |
| THE EARL OF LISTOWEL | Personally I must confess that for cases of this kind, where it may be more difficult for the rural authority to act, I should like to see an increased subsidy from the Exchequer in order to overcome that difficulty, rather than that the responsibility should be placed on the landlord—a responsibility which he may find it difficult to discharge, and which in any event would put the tenant in a position that might be exceedingly injurious to him in years to come. |
| LORD STRABOLGI | Very many of these cases are undoubtedly 382 injurious to health, and these are only the ones that come into Court. |
| LORD POLWARTH | The Act of 1907 provides that any local authority may make by-laws "for regulating, restricting, or preventing the exhibition of advertisements in such places and in such manner, or by such means, as to affect injuriously the amenities of a public park or pleasure promenade, or"— this is the important point— "to disfigure the natural beauty of a landscape." Under that Act, in 1907 the County of Dumfries applied for by-laws, and in 1908 my own County of East Lothian did the same thing. |
| LORD POLWARTH | In 1925 a further Act was passed, which provided for "… regulating, restricting or preventing … the exhibition of advertisements so as to disfigure or injuriously affect— (a) the view of rural scenery from a highway or railway, or from any public place or water; or (b) the amenities of any village within the district of a rural district council; or (c) the amenities of any historic or public building or monument or of any place frequented by the public solely or chiefly on account of its beauty or historic interest." That went a little further. |
| THE EARL OF HADDINGTON | It is the very nature of the Scottish scenery which makes this indiscriminate roadside advertising so very injurious to our landscape. |
| THE EARL OF MUNSTER | Noble Lords will recall that under that Act any scheme submitted by the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission was not to be confirmed by the Railway and Canal Commission unless they were satisfied that it would be in the national interest to do so; that it would result in lowering the cost of production or disposal of coal; that it would not be financially injurious to any of the undertakings proposed to be amalgamated; and that the terms of the scheme were fair and equitable to all persons affected thereby. |
| LORD TEYNHAM | The undertaking is therefore prevented from formulating a case to prove that the scheme would be unfair or injurious. |
| Loan GAINFORD | He said it was up to Parliament to see that the rights of mine-owners were not to be injuriously affected by this Bill, and he added "I say that deliberately." I am relying on the noble Lord in charge of the Bill to make certain that that assurance will be observed. |
| LORD STRABOLGI | Limitation of output is economically wrong and in the long run injurious to the industry. |
| THE EARL OF RADNOR | There is an Act of Parliament which deals with certain forms of injurious weeds; that also has all the authority of local government behind it. |
| VISCOUNT SAMUEL | The present situation is injurious to British prestige, it does damage to the strategical position of the whole Empire, and more than that, it shocks the religious sentiment of all the Christian peoples. |
| THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM) | Further, similar provisions to those which are included in this clause appear in the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921, which your Lordships might call legislation dealing with injurious weeds; and a similar provision is contained in the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919. |
| THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM | It is a common form used both in the Act of 1919, Section 1, in connection with the destruction of rats and mice, and also in the Bill which I previously quoted, dealing with the control of injurious weeds. |
| THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM | As I have said, there is no new precedent in this respect in the Bill, because under the legislation dealing with injurious weeds, and also with rats and mice, the courts of summary jurisdiction are the courts selected for dealing with matters of that kind. |
| LORD ARNOLD | That would have happened, as in the last six or nine months of last year, at a time of trade recession, and it would have been definitely injurious, because at a time of trade recession it is obviously harmful to have the bank rate changing upwards until perhaps we have got a very high bank rate. |
| VISCOUNT SAMUEL | It is reasonable that there should be a special provision for cases of great emergency, where the delay involved by the reference to the Home Secretary would be injurious. |
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