Tuesday, 7 July 1959
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Second Reading deferred till Thursday at Seven o'clock.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps are being taken in St. Helena to satisfy applicants for agricultural holdings.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what assistance is now given to St. Helenians who desire to emigrate to this country.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of branches of the Nyasaland African Congress which were banned under the emergency legislation; and what steps have been taken by the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is now the number of detainees in Nyasaland; for what reasons they are still being detained; for how long it is proposed to detain them; and by...
Mr. Swingier: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what political associations of Africans are now permitted to exist in Nyasaland.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what representations he has had from the Church of Scotland on the interference with their work in Nyasaland caused by the refusal of the Federal...
Mrs. White: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what inquiries have been held into allegations of improper treatment of detainees at Kanjedza, Nyasaland; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Storehouse: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what discussions he is proposing to have with the Governments and elected members of Tanganyika and Nyasaland with regard to the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when he will be able to make a statement regarding further constitutional advance in the Nyasaland Protectorate.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the present situation with regard to the citrus industry in the West Indies and its future prospects, in view of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in filling vacancies in senior medical posts in health services in the West Indies.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what evidence and charges Mr. Kenneth Kaunda has been tried and convicted by a court in Northern Rhodesia; and if he will place a transcript of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, at the 1960 constitutional conference on Central Africa, he will arrange for discussion of, and seek a solution to, the difficulties...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the content of the article in the newspaper. Vanguard, for which Rutti Bulsara, a prominent member of the Zanzibar Nationalist Party, was bound over...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what steps the Zanzibar Government is taking to give Africans experience and advancement in the administration of Zanzibar.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies under what Statute the Bermuda Supreme Court exercises Admiralty jurisdiction; and when an Order in Council will be made under Section 56 of the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a further statement on the measures being taken to deal with the situation in Uganda with particular reference to relations between...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in the civilianisation of Malta Dockyard; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what charges and with what evidence Mr. Japheta Oyangi, former organising secretary of the Nairobi People's Convention Party, was sentenced to...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement summarising the findings of the tribunal which considered the charges against Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Coutts; and when the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement, with particular reference to the hours of work of women and young persons, on the operation of the new Factory and...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will urge on the Hong Kong Government the desirability of establishing licensed premises within their territory for the humane slaughter of...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what casualties resulted from air raids by Royal Air Force aircraft during recent disturbances in Upper Yafa; and if he will make a statement.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is being done to restrict emigration from the Yemen into Aden; and to what degree this movement of casual labour is causing unemployment in the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the importation and transport of qat is now completely prohibited in Aden and the Aden Protectorate; whether medical opinion is conclusive...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what were the circumstances of the Aden Protectorate recent frontier incident, including the ambush; to what extent subversion continues in the...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what advance has been made, and is contemplated, in respect of primary education in Aden and in the Aden Protectorate, in particular, the extension...
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the nature of the charges made against eighty-six Nyasa Africans under Section 9 (A) of the Southern Rhodesia Unlawful Organisations Act; and the...
Mrs. White: asked the Attorney-General what consideration is being given to the amendment of the law concerning judicial separation, in view of renewed public interest in the matter.
asked the Minister of Works whether he will consider silencing Big Ben between midnight and 6 o'clock a.m., in the interests of patients in St. Thomas's hospital and of other residents.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Minister of Works if, when choosing a design for the Hampton site next to the National Gallery, he will select one in general harmony with the existing building.
Mr. Keswick: asked the Minister of Works if he is aware of the concern of some local authorities that a shortage of bricks in West Middlesex may hold up their housebuilding programme; and what...
asked the Prime Minister if he will now lay a White Paper before the House giving an account of the military operations in which British troops, warships and aircraft have taken part in the...
asked the Prime Minister whether the speech of the Lord President of the Council in London on 24th June about hydrogen bomb policy represents the policy of Her Majesty's Government.
asked the Prime Minister whether he will discuss with Mr. Khrushchev at the forthcoming Summit Conference the desirability of reaching early agreement on the abolition of all weapons of mass...
asked the Prime Minister what official reply he has received from Chancellor Adenauer to his invitation to visit Great Britain.
asked the Prime Minister what recent personal examination he has given to the state of the British aircraft industry; and whether he will make a statement.
Proceedings of the Committee on Navy, Army and Air Expenditure, 1957–58, exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the Provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House).—[The...
[1st July]
That it is expedient to authorise any incidental charge to income tax which may arise from extending the operation of section four hundred and twenty-nine of the Income Tax Act, 1952, in the case...
Order for consideration, as amended, read.
3.33 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 24, line 7, to leave out from the second "and" to "operates" in line 8 and to insert: by reason of assignment or otherwise, the payment". This is the first of seven...
(1) Where an assurance company having its head office in the United Kingdom carries on business in the Republic of Ireland, and under provisions of the law of that country corresponding with...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where after the seventh day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, a person incurs capital expenditure on the provision of a ship the...
Section two hundred and sixteen of the Income Tax Act, 1952, shall have effect as if the reference to the mother being widowed included— (a) a reference to her living apart from her...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where the entertainments duty chargeable in respect of the entertainments given by any person at any place in the week beginning with the second day...
(1) In paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section seven of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949 (which exempts vehicles not exceeding five hundredweight in weight unladen which are adapted and used...
Section two hundred and sixteen of the income Tax Act, 1952, shall have effect as if the reference to the mother being widowed included— (a) a reference to her living apart from her...
(1) Where stamp duty is chargeable under the head of charge "Conveyance or Transfer on sale" in the First Schedule to the Stamp Act, 1891, and the amount or value of the consideration for the...
Exemption shall be granted from tax chargeable under Schedule D in respect of the profits of a trade set up after the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, which consists of the...
(1) Where money passes or is deemed to pass on the death of a person dying after the commencement of this Act to a body to which this section applies, that money shall not be taken into account...
As from the beginning of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and in relation to any trade or business carried on by a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts,...
(1) Section one hundred and forty of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (Payment for technical education), shall apply to a payment of wages made to an apprentice of the claimant, being an apprentice...
Income tax and profits tax shall not be charged in respect of income or profits arising to a local authority from parking places designated on highways under the Road Traffic Act,...
In Part VIII of the Income Tax Act, 1952, there shall be inserted the following section:— 217A. If the claimant, by reason of his blindness, is compelled to depend upon the services of a...
11.0 p.m.
I beg to move, in page 10, line 41, to leave out from "four" to the end of line 43 and to insert: and not more than twenty persons, twelve pounds; (iii) if the vehicle has seating capacity for...
I beg to move, in page 12, line 22, to leave out from the third "of" to "and" in line 23 and to insert: (a) a back wheel, in a case where only one appliance is being used for the carriage of...
I beg to move, in page 19, line 3, at the end to insert: (5) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply if the securities are overseas securities bought by the first buyer on a stock exchange...
11.45 p.m.
12 midnight.
I beg to move, in page 25, fine 40, after "land", to insert or actual enjoyment of an incorporeal right over the land". I cannot move this Amendment with quite such precision and speed. It is all...
I beg to move, in page 29, line 13, to leave out from "on" to the end of the line and to insert: at the premises for which such certificate is held, being business carried on in that year by or...
6. In subsection (4) of section one hundred and eleven, for the words from "satisfies the licensing court" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words "produces to the...
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed. That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Finlay.]
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