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PROVISIONAL LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME: 1951-52 SESSION
Department
Remarks
Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Post Office
Treasury
GROUP I.-ESSENTIAL BILLS:
Austrian Peace Treaty ...
Japanese Peace Treaty
*** (Money)
Post Office and Telegraph
(Money)
Treasury
Treasury
Treasury
War Office and
Air
Ministry
Admiralty
Ministry of Food
Home Office and Scottish
Office
Scottish Office
Scottish Office
Scottish Office
Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries
Ministry of Civil Aviation Ministry of Education and
Scottish Office
Ministry of Food ...
Finance
Isle of Man Customs Expiring Laws Continu-
ance.
Public Works Loans Army and Air Force
(Annual)
Treaties may be concluded during the 1951-52
Session.
May not be required.
Would require to be passed by 31st March, 1952.
GROUP II.-MAJOR BILLS
Naval Discipline ...
Beet Sugar Industry
Foreign Visiting Forces
Land Drainage (Scotland)
Local Government (Public
Order) (Scotland)
Law of Succession (Scot-
land)
Policy already approved by the Cabinet (C.M. (51) 5th Conclusions, Minute 1). To implement the Pilcher Committee recommendations. To provide for the future status of the British
Sugar Corporation. ·
Was included in 1950–51 Programme. Needed to implement United Kingdom undertakings under the North Atlantic Treaty and the draft Agreement thereunder (C.M. (51) 23rd Conclu- sions Minute 5). Likely to supersede all existing legislation relating to jurisdiction over visiting forces, entry facilities, aliens restrictions and taxation privileges.
Postponed from 1950-51 Session. Needed to
increase food production.
Already drafted under supervision of Scottish Local Government Consolidation Committee. Largely a Consolidation Bill.
Based on report of Mackintosh Committee. Promised during debates on English Adoption of Children Bill 1949.
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GROUP III-MEDIUM-SIZED BILLS
Agricultural Safety
Mortgaging of Aircraft Teachers' Superannuation
Food and Drugs
Ministry of Fuel and Power Miners' Welfare
Ministry of Health and Scot- Dental
tish Office
Home Office
Geneva Conventions
Victims of War
Home Office and Scottish Cinematograph
Office
Home Office and Scottish
Office
on
Children (Employment) ...
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To implement certain recommendations of the Committee on Safety, Health and Welfare in Non-Industrial Employment.
To enable contributions to be increased as will be recommended by report of the Government Actuary. A separate Scottish Bill may be needed.
Was dropped from 1950-51 Programme. To make permanent the Defence (Sale of Food) Regulations; to extend registration of food trade premises; and to improve food hygiene. Policy approved (L.P. (51) 11th Meeting, Minute 1).
To replace Miners' Welfare Commission and Wel- fare Fund by a joint authority financed by the National Coal Board
To set up a separate General Dental Council. Policy approved (L.P. (50) 17th Meeting, Minute 1). A separate Bill for Scotland may prove nécessary.
Concerning the use of emblems and certain aspects of the criminal law and procedure to enable the Conventions to be ratified.
To bring commercial exhibitions of slow-burning films under the 1909 Act, and to provide for children's welfare at such exhibitions.
Based on the report of the Inter-Departmental
Committee on Children and the Cinema.
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Department
Bill
Home Office and Scottish Civil Defence (Industry)
Office
Ministry of Local Govern-
ment and Planning Ministry of National In
surance
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Works and Scot-
tish Office
Treasury
Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries and Scottish Office
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Commonwealth
Office
Relations Relations
Housing
National Insurance (Indus-
trial Injuries)
War Risks Insurance
Ferries
Preservation of Historic
Buildings
Preservation of Historic
Buildings (Scotland) Friendly Societies...
Remarks
To provide for the execution of civil defence
measures in industry.
To facilitate provision of homes by local authori-
ties outside their own areas.
To re-enact, with the necessary amendments, the
War Risks Insurance Act, 1939.
Policy already approved (L.P. (49) 15th Meeting,
Minute 2).
Arising from Gowers Report. Policy approved
(C.M. (51) 30th Cons., Minute 2).
Will include provisions to regularise extra statu- tory arrangements to which P.A.C. have drawn attention.
GROUP IV. MINOR BILLS
Prevention of Damage by
Pests
Convention on the Inter- national Recognition of Rights in Aircraft Diplomatic Privileges
Ministry of Education and Milk in Schools
Scottish Office
Home Office
Home Office
Home Office and Scottish
Office
Home Office and Scottish
Office
Home Office and Scottish
Office Home Office
Scottish Office
Scottish Office
Scottish Office
Board of Trade and Scottish
Office
Board of Trade.
Northern Ireland Fisheries
Metropolitan Police
Civil Defence (Grants)
Civil Defence (Mobile
Column)
Fee Charging Employment
Agencies Fireworks
To supplement existing pest control legislation and possibly implement recommendations of the Committee on Cruelty to Wild Animals. To apply the Geneva Convention of 1948.
Will confer privileges on High Commissioners of self-governing Commonwealth countries. Policy already approved by the Cabinet (C.M. (49) 64th Conclusions, Minute 4).
To enable the Minister to arrange and pay for school milk supplies. A separate Scottish Bill may be required.
To ratify an agreement between the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Policy already approved (L.P. (50) 8th Meeting, Minute 6).
To enable the Receiver to borrow for financing
police building schemes.
To change the basis of payments to local authori-
ties under the 1948 Act.
To enable man-power to be obtained for the for-
mation of mobile columns in war.
To authorise ratification of the International
Labour Convention on this topic.
May have to be taken over as a Government measure if the current Private Member's Bill is not passed. Policy approved (L.P. (50) 11th Meeting, Minute 3).
Whaling Industry (Scotland) Largely consolidation; use of consolidation pro-
National Museum of Anti-
quities (Scotland)
Valuation and Local Government (Scotland) Hire Purchase
Ministry of Transport
Wool Marketing Export Credits
Board of Trade
Ministry of Transport
Geneva Convention
Road Traffic Road Traffic
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Ministry of Transport
Highways
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cedure may be possible.
To amend the constitutional position of the
museum.
To raise the limit above which hire purchase transactions are not affected by the Hire Pur- chase Act, 1938. There may be separate Scottish legislation.
To raise the present limits of liability. To implement the Geneva Convention of 1949.
To amend Road Traffic Acts, 1930 and 1933 to empower local authorities to make certain Traffic Regulation Orders without obtaining the Minister's confirmation. Recommended by Local Government Man-power Committee To give power for the erection of bus shelters and to control queues on the highway; in part replacing temporary by permanent powers. To fix the amoun of the fiduciary note issue.
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Treasury
Treasury
Treasury
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GROUP IV. MINOR BILLS—(Contd.)
Bill
Borrowing (Control and
Guarantees).
Industrial and Provident
Societies
Irish Sailors and Soldiers
Land Trust
Local Authorities Loans
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