§ MR. ELLIOTT LEES (Birkenhead)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the danger of injury being done to existing electric lighting undertakings if electric railways should be constructed under the Light Railways Bill, unless the regulations now prescribed by the Board of Trade with regard to electric traction be amended so as to include precautions to prevent the currents of existing electric lighting undertakings being affected by the currents of electric railways; and whether he is prepared to amend these regulations?
§ MR. RITCHIEIt will be the duty of the Board of Trade to see that there are inserted in the Order authorising a light railway proposed to be worked electrically such provisions to secure public safety and the interests of electric lighting or other undertakings as they may deem advisable. If it is necessary to amend the existing regulations they can be amended in the Order.