Report by the Joint committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on public sewers (contributions by frontagers) : together with the proceedings of the committee and minutes of evidence and speeches delivered by counsel.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Public Sewers
Date:
1936
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Credit: Report by the Joint committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on public sewers (contributions by frontagers) : together with the proceedings of the committee and minutes of evidence and speeches delivered by counsel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Earl of Onslow. Lord O’ Hagan. Lord Macmillan. Captain Bourne. Mr. Cape. Sir Henry Cautley. Councils Association. Commissioners. as Agents. Charman.| Before we actually start I want to tell learned Counsel on both sides that certain Members of the Com- mittee are landowners and_ possibly might be affected by any decision that might be arrived at by the Committee and possibly carried out by Parliament subsequently. Therefore, I think we ought to take the usual course of dis- closing interests, and ask the views of the parties as to whether they would wish to have an adjournment or wish to go on. Mr. Tyldesley Jones.| Speaking for the Municipal Corporations Association and the Urban District Councils Association, remembering that your Lordship and the members of the Committee may be not only landowners but ratepayers, we waive _ any objection. Mr. Wrottesley.| We take the view that landowning is such a common habit in this country either on a large or a small scale that 1t would be rather an advantage to have them amongst the Members of the Committee. Chairman.] Then there is no objection? Mr. Tyldesley Jones.] No. Chairman.| We have decided that the public will be admitted and that copies of the evidence may be given to the parties. Mr. Tyldesley Jones.| My Lord, so far as the procedure is concerned I appear with my learned friend Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald for the Association of Muni- cipal Corporations and the Urban Dis- trict Councils Association. In as much as we are here really in support of Clauses which have been inserted in Private Bills altering the general law, I imagine it is rather incumbent upon me to justify the exceptions to the general law which have been created by the sections which have been referred to your Lordship’s Committee. It is not necessary for me to remind your Lordship of the terms of the Resolu- tion which was passed by your Lordship’s House and agreed to by the House of Commons. And I may just remind you that what it did provide was that this Committee was: ‘‘ To consider the pro- visions of Sections 62 and 64 of the Rom- ford Urban District Council Act, 1931, with respect to contributions by frontagers to the expenses of the con- struction of public sewers and to make recommendations as to the circumstances in which and the conditions upon which similar provisions should be allowed in future Bills.’ Therefore, what I pro- pose to do is this. I thought I would call your Lordship’s attention to the general law as it exists to-day, referring