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COMMITTEE OF SELECTION.

[Tuesday 16th February, 1926] :-The Local Legislation Com

mittee is nominated of,

Colonel Acland-Troyte,

Major Boyd-Carpenter,
General Clifton Brown,

Mr. Christie,
Colonel England,
Mr. Lougher,

Mr. Lowth,

Mr. A. MacLaren,

Major Alan McLean,
Sir R. Newman,
Mr. J. H. Palin,
Mr. Raine,

Mr. R. Richardson,
Captain W. W. Shaw,
Sir Charles Wilson.

[Thursday, 18th February, 1926]-Colonel Acland-Troyte and Mr. Lougher are discharged. Colonel Sir Joseph Nall and Sir Thomas Robinson are added to the Committee.

[Monday, 8th March, 1926] :-Major Boyd-Carpenter is discharged. Mr. Grotrian is added.

[Tuesday, 27th April, 1926] :-Mr. Grotrian and Mr. A. MacLaren are discharged. Colonel Acland-Troyte and Mr. Compton are added.

[Tuesday, 8th June]:-Major McLean is discharged. Mr. Hurd is added.

[Friday, 16th July]:-Colonel Sir Joseph Nall is discharged.

SPECIAL REPORT.

THE SELECT COMMITTEE to whom were referred all PRIVATE BILLS promoted by MUNICIPAL AND OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES, by which it is proposed to create powers relating to POLICE, SANITARY, or other LOCAL GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS in conflict with, deviation from, or excess of the provisions of the General Law, have agreed to the following SPECIAL REPORT. 1. Your Committee met on 3rd March and sat on eleven days as one Committee. Acting on the powers given by Order of the House, they also sat as two Committees; Section A sat on twenty-seven days, and Section B on twenty-three days.

2. Instructions were again issued for the preparation of detailed statistics of :

(a) Population, area, rateable and assessable values, rates levied in the district for the last three years, and existing loans.

(b) The Staff of the Local Authority.

Particulars were also required as to the Permissive Acts adopted by the Local Authority, and a statement whether any powers have been sought under the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, and, if so, with what result; these particulars were required in order to show how far the Authority, asking for extended powers, had utilised to the utmost the powers already authorised by Parliament.

3. Eight Bills originating in the House of Commons, and nine originating in the House of Lords have been considered.

4. Most of the Bills which Your Committee have considered during this, as in previous Sessions, contained provisions relating to Public Health, sanitation and other matters, which were set out in the Special Report in 1925.

5. In the Hackney Borough Council Bill Your Committee. allowed a Clause by which the Council were empowered to cut off the supply of electricity in cases where the consumer is in arrear as regards payment for fittings supplied.

6. Your Committee also allowed a Clause in the same Bill in extension of Section 62 of the Public Health Act, 1925, on condition that the powers so granted should cease if and when similar powers are conferred on the London County Council.

7. In the Mynyddislwyn Urban District Council Bill Your Committee allowed a Clause extending and applying the provisions of Section 73 of the Public Health Act, 1925, to clothing by forbidding rag and bone dealers to sell any article of clothing.

8. Your Committee also allowed a Clause in the same Bill empowering the Council to make a minimum charge in the case of gas supplied through a prepayment meter.

9. In the Halifax Corporation Bill Your Committee, in view of the exceptional conditions prevailing in Halifax, allowed a Clause requiring the traffic to approach and pass street refuges on the left or near side in cases where a refuge is placed in any street for the purpose of dividing and regulating the traffic in such street, and a notice bearing the words "Keep to the Left" is placed upon or above such refuge in such a conspicuous position as to be visible to the traffic on both sides.

10. In the London County Council (General Powers) Bill [Lords] Your Committee allowed a Clause authorising the Council to defray the expenses of the Advisory Committee on the Selection of Justices for the County of London.

11. Your Committee also allowed a Clause in the same Bill giving the Council power to make regulations with regard to buildings constructed wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, and in particular cases to waive or modify the requirements of the regulations upon such terms and conditions as the Council might think fit, thus extending the principle, applied by Section 5 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1923, to steel framed buildings, that a power of waiver was highly desirable in the case of constructional methods which are in state of rapid transition.

12. In the Southend-on-Sea Corporation Bill [Lords] Your Committee allowed a Clause providing for the punishment of persons having in their possession or conveying goods which may reasonably be suspected of being stolen or unlawfully obtained, unless they can satisfy the Court as to the manner in which they came by the property in question. Such provisions are in force in the Metropolitan Police District and elsewhere, and Your Committee are satisfied that the circumstances of Southend are comparable with those in the places where these special provisions were allowed and that such provisions are suitable to Southend.

13. In the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill [Lords] Your Committee allowed a Clause giving the Corporation powers for the prevention of smoke and grit similar to those contained in the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Bill [Lords] of this Session on condition that in the event of any General Act being passed amending the law relating to smoke nuisances the powers so granted should cease when such Act came into operation.

14. Your Committee desire to acknowledge the assistance rendered to them by Sir Ernest Holderness of the Home Office, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Dudley Ward and Mr. Salmon of the Ministry of Health, and Mr. Erskine and Mr. Polerdon of the Ministry of Transport.

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SCHEDULE.

BILLS CONSIDERED BY THE LOCAL LEGISLATION COMMITTEE, SESSION 1926.

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Sir Thomas Robinson was called to the Chair.

Resolved, That Sir Joseph Nall be Deputy-Chairman.
The Committee deliberated.

[Adjourned till Tuesday, 9th March, at 11 o'clock.

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Reports from the Home Office and the Ministry of Transport were read. Mr. Moon called evidence in support of the Preamble of the Bill.

Mr. FREDERICK RYALL sworn and examined.

Further consideration of the Preamble postponed.

Mr. Moon called evidence in support of the Bill.

Mr. WILLIAM BOUCHIER NICHOLSON and Mr. HENRY ADLINGTON sworn and examined.

Room cleared. The Committee deliberated.

Preamble read a second time.

Question, That the Preamble is proved, put and agreed to.

Parties called in and informed of the decision of the Committee.

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