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Wharncliffe|ˈhwɔːnklɪf|
The name of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), used attrib. and in the possessive to designate a standing order in Parliament which requires the directors of a company wishing to promote any private Bill for the extension of the company's powers to secure the consent of its members or shareholders, or a meeting at which this consent is sought.
1846Hansard Lords 23 Apr. 874 Their Lordships had already required further securities, in particular cases, by the Order called Lord Wharncliffe's Order, which required in the case of established companies, if they..demanded powers beyond their original powers—that.. a meeting consisting of three-fifths of the company should have sanctioned the proposed alteration. 1851Erskine May Law of Parl. (ed. 2) xxvii. 560 It is directed by an order commonly known as ‘Lord Wharncliffe's order’. 1887F. Clifford Hist. Private Bill Legislation II. xx. 784 In order to prevent directors of companies from promoting Bills without the knowledge or sanction of shareholders, the House of Lords framed, in 1846, a series of Orders, under which ‘Wharncliffe meetings’, as they were afterwards termed, must be held, to consider each Bill so promoted. 1923Daily Mail 24 Feb. 3/2 Your approval will be asked at a Wharncliffe Meeting which will be held in the near future. 1948O. C. Williams Hist. Devel. Private Bill Procedure I. vi. 166 The Wharncliffe Order, then, was not first framed in 1846, as Clifford says, but in 1838; it was not one of a series of orders, but developed into a series by processes of division and addition; its object was not simply to prevent directors of companies from promoting bills without the knowledge and sanction of shareholders but to prevent the promotion of bills to obtain further powers (especially to construct branch lines—always a speculative project) without such sanction. |