PROPOSED INSTRUCTIONS. (Hansard, 30 August 1909)

§ Mr. J. C. WEDGWOOD
To mover "That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill that they have power to provide for the complete dissociation of the compensation payable under the Town Planning Clauses of this Bill from the Land Clauses Consolidation Act of 1845."

§ Mr. KEIR HARDIE
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee to insert Clauses in the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Bill, providing for the separate valuation and assessment of all lands and of buildings acquired or erected in connection with any scheme carried out under the provisions of this Act, and for acquiring for the local authority all increments of value in lands which can be traced to improvements or schemes carried out under the provisions of this Act."

§ Mr. G. N. BARNES and Mr. F. W. JOWETT
Instructions in like terms.

§ Mr. A. FINDLAY
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill that they have power to provide for compensation arising from damages from mineral workings, and that, on a local authority acquiring the surface, this shall carry as of right the property in the minerals beneath the surface."

§ Mr. W. JOYNSON-HICKS
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Com- 27 mittee that they have power to insert Clauses in the Bill providing for the improvement of existing and construction of new through routes for traffic, and empowering the Local Government Board to prescribe a minimum width for through or arterial routes of traffic."

Sir WALTER FOSTER
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee to extend the scope of the Bill so as to make provisions with respect to the appointment and duties of borough and district medical officers of health."

§ Lord ROBERT CECIL
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they have power to divide the Bill into two parts."

§ Mr. A. C. MORTON
To move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee that Part II. of the Bill shall not apply to Scotland."

§ Mr. SPEAKER
There are a number of Instructions upon the Paper. The first, standing in the name of the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Wedgwood), can be moved as an Amendment to the Bill. The next Instructions, standing in the names of the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil (Mr. Keir Hardie), the hon. Member for the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow (Mr. Barnes), and the hon. Member for West Bradford (Mr. Jowett) are all mandatory, and therefore out of order. The next, standing in the name of the hon. Member for North-East Lanark (Mr. Findlay), combines in itself two separate Instructions, and ought to be divided. They cannot be treated together as one question. The next Instruction, standing in the name of the hon. Member for North-West Manchester (Mr. Joynson-Hicks), is beyond the scope of the Bill. The next, standing in the name of the hon. Member for the Ilkeston Division of Derbyshire, is also mandatory, and therefore out of order. I am afraid I cannot understand the object of the Instruction standing in the name of the Noble Lord the hon. Member for East Marylebone to divide the Bill into two parts, because the Bill is already divided into four parts. The next, standing in the name of the hon. Member for Sutherland-shire, is a mandatory Instruction, and therefore out of order. None of the Instructions being in order, I will now leave the Chair.