COUNTY OF CORNWALL BILL [Lords]. (Hansard, 9 May 1929)

§ Mr. CRAWFURD

Before a decision is taken on this matter the House should realise what it is doing. This is a Private Bill, and in respect of one or two Clauses the Home Office have made certain recommendations. The Local Legislation Committee of this House in spite of those recommendations passed Clauses 2427 which appeared in the Bill as it left the Local Legislation Committee. The Home Office brought pressure to bear and the promoters of the Bill have now agreed to waive certain Clauses which were agreed to by the Local Legislation Committee and substitute Clauses imposed upon them by the Home Office. It is in order to do this that we are asked to suspend the Standing Orders. I am not going to recite the Standing Orders but those who have material objections to the Bill—and these Clauses deal with matters of petrol plant and roadside garages—believe that the new Clause as proposed by the Home Office makes a material alteration in the original Clauses which constituted an agreed settlement. The particular Standing Orders referred to are those which give protection to those who object to what they regard as unreasonable provisions in Private Bill legislation, they deal with printing, Private Bill notices, and verbal amendments; and at this late hour a Bill which can be carried on to the next Parliament and carried through by mutual agreement next July the House is being asked to suspend Standing Orders which alone give protection to those people who feel themselves aggrieved by private legislation and to carry an Amendment imposed by a Government Department against the decision of the Local Legislation Committee of this House.