Merchandise Marks (Imported Goods).

49. Bill to require an indication of origin to be given in the

case of certain imported goods.

180.

Same [as amended by Standing Committee B].

214. Lords Amendments.

Midwives and Maternity Homes.

P. 169

181

197

38. Bill to amend the Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918, and to

provide for the registration of maternity homes, and

for purposes connected therewith.

201

128. Bill to make provision for facilitating the working of

minerals and the better organisation of the coal mining

industry, and with respect to the welfare of persons

employed therein, and for other purposes connected

with that industry.

164. Same [as amended by Standing Committee D].

187. Lords Amendments.

225

245

269

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation

(Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) [H.L.].

Bill intituled an Act to confirm a Provisional Order of

the Minister of Health relating to Ashton-under-Lyne.

271

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation

(Ealing Extension) [H.L.].

149. Bill intituled an Act to confirm a Provisional Order of

the Minister of Health relating to Ealing.

299

Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Ilfracombe).

95. Bill to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health

relating to Ilfracombe.

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 1).

331

46. Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of

Health relating to Barnsley, Maidstone, Port Talbot,

Rochester and Chatham Joint Sewerage District,

Wakefield and West Kent Main Sewerage District.

337

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 2).

69. Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Barnet, Llanelly, Lowestoft, Preston, St. Helens and Somerset.

77.

P. 355

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 3).

Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Altrincham, Coulsdon and Purley, Harrogate, Kingston-upon-Thames, Oxford and Sunderland.

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 4).

371

83. Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Brighton, East Barnet Valley, Keighley, Keswick, Lichfield and Rotherham.

89.

383

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders (No. 5).

Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister
of Health relating to Fylde, Preston and Garstang
Joint Smallpox Hospital District, Newquay, Pontefract,
Stoke-on-Trent, Swanage and Watford.

405

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6) [H.L.].

135. Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Hythe, King's Lynn, Liverpool. Middleton, Sandown and Shanklin Joint Hospital District and Isle of Wight Joint Hospital District and Sheffield.

433

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) [H.L.].

136. Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Cranleigh District Water, Southwold Water and West Surrey Water. 455

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8) [H.L.].

137. Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Dunstable Water, Harpenden Water and Heathfield and District Water.

503

138.

139.

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation

(No. 9) [H.L.].

Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders

of the Minister of Health relating to Thorne and

District Water, Trowbridge Water and Wokingham

District Water.

p. 551

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation.

(No. 10) [H.L.].

Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders

of the Minister of Health relating to Hertford and

Middlesex and Watford.

593

Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation.

(No. 11) [H.L.].

156. Bill intituled an Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders

of the Minister of Health relating to Chester, Leyton,

Nantwich, Scarborough, Spalding and Wimbledon. 621

Moneylenders.

9. Bill to amend the law with respect to persons carrying on

business as moneylenders.

Moneylenders [H.L.].

655

57. Bill intituled an Act to amend the law with respect to

persons carrying on business as moneylenders. 673

Moveable Dwellings.

72. Bill to provide for the regulation of moveable dwellings.

691

A

BILL

[AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE D]

INTITULED

An Act to amend the law with respect to the
drainage of agricultural land.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

A.D. 1926.

councils of

1.-(1) The powers of the Minister of Agriculture Transfer of and Fisheries (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") drainage under Part II. of the Land Drainage Act, 1918, shall be powers to transferred to the councils of counties and county counties 10 boroughs, and accordingly that Part of that Act in its and county application to any county or county borough shall have boroughs. effect as if for references to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries there were substituted references to the council of the county or county borough: Provided that

(a) in the case of the powers conferred by sub-
section (2) of section fifteen of the Land
Drainage Act, 1918, and transferred to the
council of a county or a county borough by
this section the council shall, except in case of
emergency, before exercising any such powers,
give to the drainage authority in whose default
they propose to exercise such powers not less
than thirty days notice in writing of their
intention so to do, and that if before the
expiration of the period of notice the drainage

A.D. 1926.

Mainten ance of

drains, &c.

authority intimate in writing to the council
their objection to the exercise of the proposed
powers the council shall not exercise the same
except with the consent of the Minister who
may, if he thinks fit, cause a public local inquiry 5
to be held with respect to the objection;

(b) in the case of the powers conferred by section
sixteen of the Land Drainage Act, 1918, and
transferred to the council of a county or
county borough by this section where a draft 10
scheme has been prepared by the council of
a county or county borough in pursuance
thereof, and the owners of one-half or more of
the land comprised within the area to which
the draft scheme relates have duly presented 15
objections thereto and have not withdrawn
the same, the council shall before settling the
scheme cause a public local enquiry to be held
with reference to the scheme.

(2) Section seventeen of the said Act is hereby 20 repealed.

2. (1) Where any drain within the meaning of this section is in such a condition that the proper flow of water is impeded, then unless the condition of the drain is attributable to the subsidence of surface due to 25 mining operations, it shall be the duty of the person having control of the drain, or of the part thereof where the impediment occurs, to put the drain or such part thereof in proper order if by reason of such impediment agricultural land belonging to or in the occupation of 30 some other person is injured by water, or in danger of being so injured.

(2) Where the council of a county or county borough are of opinion that by reason of the act or default of any person any such drain within the county or county 35 borough is in such a condition that the proper flow of water is impeded and that by reason of the condition of the drain agricultural land belonging to or in the occupation of some other person is injured by water or is in danger of being so injured, the council may serve upon 40 the person by whose act or default such flow is impeded notice requiring him to put the drain or any part thereof in proper order: Provided that no such notice shall