HC Deb 16 November 1933 vol 281 c1157

Lords Amendment: In page 9, line 38, at the end, insert: (d) in determining the number of vehicles to be authorised, to the need for providing for occasions when vehicles are withdrawn for service for overhaul or repair: (e) to the extent to which the vehicles to be authorised will be in substitution for horse-drawn vehicles previously used by the applicant for the purposes of his business as a carrier;

Mr. STANLEY

I beg to move, "That this House doth agreed with the Lords in the said Amendment."

These two paragraphs add two instructions to those to which the licensing authority must have regard, when an application is submitted to them. The first is to enable them to take into account, when they license a number of vehicles, not only the number of vehicles that a man actually requires for his service, but also the possibility that some vehicles may be out of running when in need of repair. The second is intended to meet in some way a consideration that was urged upon me at various stages of the Bill, in the case of a carrier who has been using horse-drawn vehicles and wishes to change over to motor vehicles. The Amendment will create some sort of bias in his favour, owing to the fact that he has already been engaged in this traffic.

Question, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment," put, and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendment to page 10, line 5, agreed to.