HC Deb 13 December 1932 vol 273 cc303-4

9.3 p.m.

Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE

I beg to move, in page 130, line 4, to leave out the words "restriction under," and to insert instead thereof the words: being subject to the restriction imposed by proviso (ii) to Sub-section (1) of Section fifteen of. This Amendment is a drafting Amendment. Doubt has arisen as to whether the board will be allowed to run services on the roads marked blue on the map without being licensed by the traffic commissioners. I understand that there will be no restrictions to the board's services in picking up and putting down passengers, but if my Amendment is accepted it will make the matter quite clear.

9.4 p.m.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL

As my hon. Friend says, this is a drafting Amendment. The word s to which he refers do not have the effect which it was feared that they might have, namely, to exempt the board from the necessity of obtaining road service licences like other people on the spur roads, that is those roads which stick out from the circle of the area. I am afraid the words are necessary for another purpose. If we left them out the Bill would not be effective to do what it says and what is intended; but the words do not have the effect of exempting the Transport Board from the necessity for obtaining road service licences on those particular roads.

Mr. A. SOMERVILLE

In view of what the learned Attorney-General has said, I beg leave to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.