§ MR. SCOTT-MONTAGU (Hampshire, New Forest)I beg to ask the hon. Member for Chorley, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he is aware that a case concerning the legal validity of the regulations prescribing ten miles an hour in the parks is now under appeal to the High Court; and whether, until that appeal is decided, he will allow 1530 the ordinary law of the land to apply and cease prosecutions which may be illegal.
§ LORD BALCARRES (Lancashire, Chorley)The reply to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. The First Commissioner regrets that he is unable to give any pledge pending the decision of the case.
§ MR. SCOTT-MONTAGUWhen is the decision of the High Court likely to be given?
§ LORD BALCARRESI cannot say; we have no control over His Majesty's Judges or the High Court, but we are as anxious as anybody to get the decision without delay.