§ The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)I beg to move, in page 6, line 16, after the word "was," to insert the words:
(within the meaning of the said paragraph (5) as that paragraph will have effect on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight).
§ The Amendment is quite simple. It seeks to enact that agricultural purposes, as defined in Clause 12, shall be the same as in paragraph (c) of the Fourth Schedule. The House is aware that the Fourth Schedule only comes into operation on 1st January next, and also that certain concessions were given during the Committee stage to agriculturists in regard to the duty which they will have to pay on their vehicles. Later in the proceedings on this Bill I propose to move an Amendment to meet the case of the agriculturist who carries a small parcel of agricultural goods on his lorry for another agriculturist, so as to prevent him from losing the benefit of the concession simply because he has done a good turn in this way, without any payment and merely as a gracious act. If that subsequent Amendment be made, this Amendment will ensure that in this year 1927 the farmer shall not be prevented from getting the concession because he has carried, on some occasion, a small parcel.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: In page 6, line 19, leave out the words "and for no other purpose."—[Colonel Ashley.]