§ 24. Major BEAUMONT THOMASasked the Minister of Transport whether he will take steps to ensure that traffic commissioners will not authorise any motor coach time tables which will entail the driving of any motor coach at any time on the route at a speed of over 30 miles an hour?
§ Mr. GILLETTIt is already laid down in Sub-section (3) of Section 72 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, that the traffic commissioners shall not grant a road service licence in respect of any route if it appears to them from the particulars of the time tables which the applicants are required to furnish that the provisions of the Act relating to the speed of motor vehicles are likely to be contravened. The traffic commissioners have not yet dealt with all the applications for road service licences which have been made to them and, therefore, only a proportion of the road services have at present been brought under their review. In the circumstances my hon. Friend does not consider that action on his part is necessary.