HL Deb 11 February 1892 vol 1 cc173-4
LORD STRATHEDEN AND CAMPBELL

My Lords, I rise to ask your Lordships to read, for the first time, a Bill for the abatement of Smoke in the Metropolis. The subject has often come before the House, and at the present moment it excites considerable interest. The Bill I wish to introduce will approximate, as far as the present state of the law permits, with the form that had previously received the sanction of the Select Committee, who went with anxious care into the details and took important evidence upon it.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY)

The noble Lord has not given notice, has he?

LORD STRATHEDEN AND CAMPBELL

The noble and learned Lord will admit that it is not necessary to give notice.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

For a Bill to be presented for First Reading, but nothing more. If the noble Lord was going to make any observations upon it, he ought to have given notice.

LORD STRATHEDEN AND CAMPBELL

I am not about to make any further observations, except to express the hope that Her Majesty's Government agree with me that the time for legislation has arrived, and that the time for inquiry has been thoroughly exhausted. It is perfectly usual in this House to make an observation within those narrow limits.

A Bill to amend the Acts for abating the nuisance arising from the smoke of furnaces and fireplaces within the metropolis—Presented by the Lord Stratheden and Campbell; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 9.)

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