HC Deb 12 July 1938 vol 338 cc1198-9

Lords Amendment: In page II, line 35, at the end, insert: (8) If any person is convicted under Part I of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, of using a goods vehicle for a purpose for which an A licence, a B licence or a C licence is required, otherwise than under such a licence, any road haulage work performed by a road haulage worker in connection with the vehicle while it was being so used shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been road haulage work in connection with a goods vehicle specified in an A licence, a B licence or a C licence granted under that Act, as the case may be, and the provisions of this and of the last foregoing Section shall apply accordingly.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

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

The object of the Amendment is to prevent any person who unlawfully uses a goods vehicle from escaping altogether the obligations which would fall upon him if the vehicle had been lawfully used. It will cover the case of those persons who have no licence but ought to have one, or who drive a vehicle with a wrong licence.

Question put, and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 16, line 36, agreed to.