Monday, 30 July 1956
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported Her Majesty's Answer to the Address, as follows:
BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (No. 2) BILL
[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]
As amended, considered.
As amended, considered.
As amended, considered.
As amended, considered.
As amended, considered.
I beg to move, That in the case of the Walthamstow Corporation Bill [Lords] Standing Orders 179 (Printing of Bill as amended in Committee), 180 (Deposit of copies of Bill at public Departments,...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what economies are being made in the functioning of the National Assistance Board in so far as Scotland is concerned.
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he is aware that earnings have risen by 85 per cent. from October, 1946, to October, 1955; and by how much he estimates that pensions...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance the reason for the delay in payment of benefit for short-time working to employees in the motor industry and for dates between 9th and 30th...
asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance whether he will reintroduce the pre-war facilities for a disabled ex-Service man to commute his pension for a lump sum.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the prospect of obtaining power from the sun; what Government-sponsored experiments are taking place, either by his Department or by private concerns working...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether, in view of the expenditure falling upon the National Coal Board in consequence of the importation of coal, he will undertake to promote increased...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will make a statement on his proposals for the development of hydro-electric power in Britain.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he is yet in a position to make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy with regard to the recommendations of the Herbert Committee.
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will review the programme of the Atomic Energy Authority with a view to accelerating the contribution that it can make to Britain's fuel requirements.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the extra amount of coal that would be needed to abolish domestic fuel rationing.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the total annual tonnage of concessionary coal now being allowed in the coal industry; to what total number of people it is being allowed; and to what total...
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the current annual cost of coal rationing.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the estimated reserves of coal in the opencast project now being started near Kinglossie, Fife; and how soon coal will be produced.
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power how many prosecutions last year were brought against coal merchants for describing coal as a superior grade to that actually received from the colliery, and...
asked the Minister of Supply what consultations take place between his Department and the British aircraft manufacturers with regard to the production of aircraft to meet the requirements of the...
asked the Minister of Supply what inquiry was held after the crash of the Javelin fighter aircraft in which Mr. P. Lawrence, the Gloster Aircraft Company's test pilot, was killed: what was the...
asked the Minister of Supply if he is satisfied that all revelant reports made by aircraft company test pilots of prototype aircraft ordered by his Department are received and studied by his...
asked the Minister of Supply what steps he has taken to test the efficiency of the new 100-octane grades of petrol for use in Government vehicles.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what improvements have now been carried out in the 15 horse slaughterhouses and 45 knackers' yards which in the early part of the year, were...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he is taking to increase during the year 1956–57 the number of smallholdings provided under the smallholdings legislation.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he has taken to create an inspectorate to enforce the provisions of the Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is aware that the recently published National Food Survey, reprint 1955, relates to 1952; why these are so outdated; and when more...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the value of the milk and welfare foods to families of four children in 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will continue the negotiations to obtain possession of County School, North Elmham, Norfolk, for the purpose of accommodating high-grade mental deficients,...
asked the Minister of Health if he will make a statement on the recent death of a patient in the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Greenbank, Plymouth, which was found to be due to...
asked the Minister of Health the number of new hospitals planned to be built for the south-west area of Middlesex during the next five years.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will give guidance in his "Notes to Prescribes" to general practitioners as to the cost of tranquilliser drugs.
asked the Minister of Health how many of the neglected persons whose cases have been reviewed are still retained in mental institutions and under what authority.
asked the Minister of Health what decision he has now reached on the proposal by the North-East Regional Hospital Board to close down the St. George-in-the-East Hospital, Wapping, E.1.
asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a regulation under Section 13 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, forbidding shop assistants from licking their fingers when picking up paper in...
asked the Minister of Health the average net earnings of a general medical practitioner in the National Health Service; what they were in 1939; and by what percentage they have risen.
asked the Minister of Health whether British firms were invited to tender for the supply of 21,390 rear lamps for invalid cars; and why German lamps or parts of lamps are being issued.
With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to make a statement on the Suez Canal. As a first step, measures have been taken, with effect from last Friday, in relation to...
Mr. Speaker: I have a statement to make to the House on the question of the Chief Justice of the Seychelles. I apologise for the fact that it is rather longer than my usual statements, but the...
Proceedings on the Consideration of the Lords Amendments to the Restrictive Trade Practices Bill, the Road Traffic Bill and the Marriage (Scotland) Bill and on the Motion in the name of Mr. R. A....
Order read for consideration of Lords Amendments.
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 16, at end insert: and as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by the Registrar.
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 41, after "a" insert "superior".
Lords Amendment: In page 4, line 38, after "between" insert "two or more."
Lords Amendment: Divide Clause 7 into two clauses, the first to consist of subsections (3), (4), (11) and (12). and the second to consist of subsections (1), (2), (5) to (10) inclusive, and (13.)
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 9, line 31, leave out from first "agreement" to "and" in line 34.
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 29, leave out from "as" to end of line 30 and insert "the Registrar thinks fit."
Lords Amendment: In page 13, line 38, at end insert: concerning the matters in respect of which the Registrar has given notice to him as aforesaid".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 14, line 24, leave out "the last foregoing section" and insert "section thirteen of this Act".
Lords Amendment: In page 16, line 28, leave out from "an" to "and" in line 29 and insert: application under the foregoing subsection is made against any person party to an agreement".
Lords Amendment: In page 18, line 21, at end insert: (4) Where any restrictions accepted under a term implied by virtue of subsection (7) of section six of this Act in an agreement for the...
Lords Amendment: In page 18, line 39, after "injury" insert "(whether to persons or to premises)".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 20, line 6, after "or" insert "individuals".
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 34, leave out from "may" to "the" in line 35 and insert: make provisions with respect to".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 22, line 22, leave out subsection (3.)
Lords Amendment: In page 23, line 27, leave out from beginning to "breach" in line 28 and insert: Without prejudice to any other relief which may be granted in proceedings against any person in...
Lords Amendment: In page 23, line 40, at end insert: (2) For the purposes of any provision of this Part of this Act referring to two or more or not more than two persons, two or more persons...
Lords Amendment: In page 24, line 13, at end insert new Clause A: This Part of this Act shall come into force on the expiration of the period of three months beginning with the date of the...
Lords Amendment: In page 25, line 21, at end insert: and the Commission shall not be required in pursuance of any such reference to report whether any such agreement to which the parties...
Lords Amendment: In page 27, line 9, leave out subsection (1) and insert: (1) Where, apart from subsection (9) of section seven of this Act, particulars would be required to be furnished to the...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 29, line 30, leave out from first "Registrar" to end of line and insert: has the meaning assigned by section one of this Act.
Lords Amendment: In page 30, line 21, leave out subsection (2.)
Order read for consideration of Lords Amendments.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 22, leave out from "council" to "large" in line I on page 2 and insert: designated by the Minister for the purposes of this section, being the council of a...
Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 27, after "road" insert "at any time".
Lords Amendment: In page 5, line 11, at end insert: and(b) where in the opinion of a police constable the vehicle is apparently so defective that it ought not to be allowed to proceed without a...
Lords Amendment: In page 5, line 23, at end insert: (2) A length of trunk road or of classified road shall not be deemed for the purposes of the Act of 1934 to be a road in a built-up area by...
Lords Amendment: In page 5, line 24, after "Minister" insert: or, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State or the Minister.
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 6, line 19, after "Minister" insert "or the Secretary of State".
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 33, at end insert: A.—(1) No person shall promote or take part in a trial of any description between motor vehicles on a footpath or bridleway unless the...
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 33, after the words last inserted, insert Clause B: (1) Any person who promotes or takes part in a race or trial of speed on a public highway between bicycles or...
Lords Amendment: In page 11, line 34, at end insert: C.—(1) Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section six of the Act of 1934 (which enables an applicant who held a licence before nineteen...
Lords Amendment: After the Amendment last inserted, insert: D.—(1) The classes or descriptions of vehicles in relation to which, for the purpose of granting a licence by virtue of the...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 12, line 25, leave out "the parking places" and insert "any parking place so designated".
Lords Amendment: In page 15, line 14, leave out subsection (4) and insert: (4) If it is so provided in the order designating the parking place, there shall be apparatus of the prescribed...
Lords Amendment: In page 16, line 42, leave out from "provision" to end of line 44, and insert: for determining by or under the order the positions in which vehicles left in a parking place shall...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 18, line 12, leave out "to pay when it is due" and insert "duly to pay".
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 19, line 18, leave out "payments made out of" and insert "amounts charged to"
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 7, after "instrument" insert: (4) An order under subsection (7) or (8) of section seventeen of this Act shall not have effect unless approved by resolution of...
Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 8, at end insert: Regulations under section two of the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1926, may make provision for imposing and recovering charges for the...
Lords Amendment: In page 21, line 8, leave out "subsection (1)" and insert: the powers conferred by subsection (2)".
Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 38, leave out from "him" to end of line 44.
Lords Amendment: In page 24, line 3, leave out "references" and insert: subsection (2) of section forty-one of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948 (which provides for proof, in proceedings for certain...
Lords Amendment: In page 24, line 5, at end insert new Clause F: —(1) The powers conferred by subsection (2) of section forty-six of the Act of 1930 (which authorises the making of orders...
Lords Amendment: After the Amendment last inserted, insert new Clause G: (1) Where under section forty-seven of the Act of 1930 (which provides for traffic regulation in consequence of the...
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 24, line 9, after "requirements" insert "restrictions".
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 25, line 31, leave out "by the Minister."
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 26, line 25, leave out "by the Minister."
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 27, line 1, leave out "by the Minister."
Lords Amendment: In page 28, line 36, at end insert new Clause H: For the purposes of the Road Transport Lighting Acts, 1927 to 1953, the expression 'the hours of darkness' shall mean the time...
Lords Amendment: After the Amendment last inserted, insert new Clause I: (1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing (by reference to shape, construction or any other quality) types of...
Lords Amendment: In page 28, line 43, after "with)" insert: or a direction may be given under subsection (3) of that section.
Lords Amendment: In page 30, line 34, leave out Clause 36.
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 33, line 40, after "Minister" insert: or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 37, line 18, after "Minister" insert "or of the Secretary of State".
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 38, line 8, at end insert: 'bridleway' means a way over which the public have the following, but no other rights of way, that is to say a right of way on foot...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 40, line 32, leave out from "Where" to "the" and insert: the last foregoing sub-paragraph does not apply".
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 41, line 37, after "Minister" insert: or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State".
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 42, line 19, leave out "order applied for" and insert "proposed order".
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 44, line 10, at end insert new Schedule A: 1. Any offence against subsection (1) of section four of the Act of 1930 or section thirty-one of the Act of 1934...
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 47, line 29, at end insert new Schedule B: 1.—(1) A person against whom proceedings are brought in England or Wales for an offence under section...
Lords Amendment: In page 48, line 12, at end insert: ("4.—(1) In subsection (1) of section ten of the London Traffic Act, 1924 (which, as amended by section sixty-three of the London...
Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 54, line 38, at end insert: "17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 37. The Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927. In section one, in subsection (2) the words 'and subject to...
Lords Amendment considered.
Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 1, line 11, leave out "or she".
11.57 p.m.
11.58 p.m.
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