§ 5.57 p.m.
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)I beg to move, in page 37, line 36, after "1921," to insert the words "(except section forty-seven thereof)".
This Amendment is for the purpose of securing the maintenance of the existing rules as to through rates. It is practically a drafting Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: In page 37, line 42, leave out the words "and charges."
§ In page 38, line 6, leave out from the word "charges" to the second word "of," in line 7, and insert instead there- 1478 of the words "applied to that company under Part III."—[Mr. Pybus.]
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMI beg to move, in page 38, line 7, at the end, to add the words:
(3) As from the appointed day all provisions contained in any special or local Act, or in any Order having the force of an Act, with respect to the power of the Minister to revise the maximum fares and charges to be demanded by the tramway undertakings transferred to the board by this Act shall cease to have effect.This Amendment is proposed in order to avoid any possible conflict between the existing power of the Minister to revise the maximum fares on tramways and the new jurisdiction over fares set up by Clause 29 of the Bill.
§ Amendment agreed to.