§ Lords Amendment: In page 25, leave out from the word "and" in line 22, to the word "all" in line 24.
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Amendment and the next are intended to make it clear that the county councils' functions are in respect of county roads and do not extend to the roads of an urban authority.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendment agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment: In page 25, line 36, at the end, insert:
§ (3) "As from the appointed day, the council of every county shall exercise the functions of maintenance, repair and improvement of, or other dealing with, every bridge in the county repairable by the inhabitants at large which carries a county road, and section one hundred and nineteen of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (which relates to the maintenance of borough bridges), shall cease to have effect as respects any bridge which carries a county road, and notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section thirty-five of the Local Government Act, 1888, no borough shall be exempt from contributing towards the costs incurred by a county council for the purpose of the maintenance, repair and improvement of, or other dealing with, bridges."
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Amendment is to make it clear that the county council are to be responsible for all bridges, repairable in the county at large, which carry the county roads.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 32, line 30, agreed to.