HC Deb 03 August 1896 vol 43 cc1357-8

Order read for consideration of Bill in Committee.

The following Notices stood on the Paper, on the Order for Committee on the Bill:—

MR. J. CALDWELL (Lanark, Mid)

To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to introduce provisions for the relief of the occupiers of lands and heritages other than agricultural lands and heritages.

MR. J. M. WHITE (Forfarshire)

To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to introduce provisions for applying part of the funds allotted by the Bill for the purposes of higher, including technical, education.

MR. THOMAS SHAW (Hawick Burghs)

To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to provide that in the case of any holding in a crofting parish, the Crofters Commission, in fixing whether for the first or any subsequent time a fair rent for such holding, shall not be entitled to take into account the relief effected by the Act from a proportion of the consolidated rate, poor rate, and other rates there mentioned.

MR. ROBINSON SOUTTAR (Dumfriesshire)

To move:— That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to introduce provisions for applying part of the funds allotted by the Hill for the purposes of agricultural experiment and research.

* MR. SPEAKER

The first Instruction to the Committee, which is on the Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Mid Lanark, that the Committee have power to introduce provisions for the relief of the occupiers of lands and heritages other than agricultural lands and heritages, appears to me to be out of order, as it is altogether beyond the scope of the Bill. The next Instruction, in the name of the hon. Member for Forfar, that the Committee have power to introduce provisions for applying part of the funds allotted by the Bill for the purposes of higher, including technical, education; and the fourth instruction, in the name of the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, that the Committee have power to introduce provisions for applying part of the funds allotted by the Bill for purposes of agricultural experiment and research—both appear to me to relate to matters foreign to the proposals of the Bill, and they are out of order. The third Instruction, in the name of the hon. Member for Hawick Burghs, that the Committee have power to provide that in the case of any holding in a crofting parish, the Crofters Commission, in fixing, whether for the first or any subsequent time, a fair rent for such holding, shall not be entitled to take into account the relief effected by the Act from a proportion of the consolidated rate, poor rate, and other rates there mentioned, would be a legitimate subject for an Amendment to the Bill. As an Instruction, therefore, it is unnecessary and out of order.

Bill considered in Committee.

[Mr. J. W. LOWTHER, CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS, in the Chair.]

Clause 1,—