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"In this Act and for the purposes of the Petroleum Acts, 1871 to 1926, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:
'Amenities,' in relation to any place, includes any view of or from that place:
'Canal' and 'canal company' have respectively the same meanings as in the-Regulation of Railways Act, 1873:
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'Contravention' includes, in relation to any provision, a failure to comply with that provision, and the expression 'contravene' shall be construed accordingly:
'Motor vehicles' includes all mechanically propelled vehicles intended or adapted for use on roads:
'Petroleum filling station' means any premises or place used or intended to be used by way of trade or for purposes of gain for fuelling motor vehicles with petroleum, and includes any building, advertisement, pump, or other apparatus in or used in connection with any such premises.
§ Sir V. HENDERSONI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This is a new Clause in which all the definitions have been collected.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYThere is one point with regard to motor vehicles. I do not want to appear in any way facetious about this, but the motor vehicle is not the only vehicle that proceeds on the roads. Agricultural machinery does, and we are also developing various forms of mechanical vehicles that go across country. This is only a small point, but it may be a loophole for some hideous station to be placed somewhere in order to supply farmers with spirit for their motor tractors. The second point to which I wish to draw attention is this. I am looking ahead a little. We may have one day unsightly stations erected at the top of masts for filling aeroplanes. [Laughter.] Well, I would remind the Noble Lord the Member for Newark (Marquess of Titchfield) I tried to guard myself by saying that I did not want to appear in any way facetious. I am not at all. Twenty years ago his type of Conservative laughed at the idea of even flying, and said it was absolutely ridiculous. I thought that, perhaps, we might guard ourselves against having to enact in a Bill in the time of a Labour Government, with the Opposion and obstruction of hon. Gentlemen opposite if they can still get returned, by filling up a gap left in this Bill. I only make my remarks for the benefit of the hon. and gallant Gentleman and his advisers.
§ Sir V. HENDERSONI think that "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," but I would like to point out to the hon. and gallant Member that this definition has not been amended. It has 2192 merely been taken from Clause 3 (2), where he will see the definition, and is put with other definitions in a new Clause. While some alteration may be necessary in 20 or 15 years time, I doubt whether we are justified in making such a provision at the present time.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendment agreed to.