HC Deb 22 April 1931 vol 251 c964
26. Mr. ROSS

asked the Minister of Transport whether he will from time to time issue in a bound volume the rules and orders relating to the Road Traffic Act and provide the same with an index?

Mr. HERBERT MORRISON

I will keep the hon. Member's suggestion in mind for consideration at a later date. Certain regulations have yet to be made.

Mr. ROSS

Is the right hon. Gentle man aware that it is very difficult for many thousands of people interested in investigations before area commissioners to deal with the large number of Orders and Provisional Orders issued as separate leaflets?

Mr. MORRISON

So far as the proceedings before the area commissioners are concerned, I would hardly like to say that the regulations are particularly numerous. They do replace a lot of other regulations. Each section of motor users is interested in, perhaps, one body of regulations only, and they do not all need to know all the regulations. I should be sorry if they did.

Mr. MARJORIBANKS

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that everyone is presumed to know the law?

Mr. MORRISON

Yes, in relation to an offence against that law. So they ought.