§ MR. ELLISTo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether rules have been made, and are now in force, with respect to all the twelve subjects mentioned in the schedule to The Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act, 1900; if not, which of the subjects are still without rules, and at what stage is the action necessary to make or complete the rules respecting it or them; whether any rules have been made under Section 1, Sub-section (2), of the Act, and, if so, what is their nature; whether any rules have been made under Section 1, Sub-section (3), of the Act, and, in that case, what is their nature; and whether any specific order has been made under Section 8 of the Act, and, if so, what is its nature.
(Answered by Mr. Kearley.) Rules are now in force with regard to nine of the twelve subjects scheduled to the Act of 1900, and a proposed rule was published last August with regard to a further subject, brake levers on both sides of waggons, and has now been modified in view of certain objections received thereto. It has not yet been thought necessary to make rules with regard to No. 7, position of offices, etc., or No. 8, marking of fouling points, as such matters can be more conveniently dealt with, should occasion arise, than by general rule under Section 1 (1). No rules have been made under Section 1 (2) and (3) of the Act, nor have any specific orders under Section 8 been found necessary.