§ 6.45 p.m.
§ Mr. BarnesI beg to move, in page 21, line 9, after "authority," to insert:
after the expiration of six months from the passing of this Act.The Clause is intended to absolve highway authorities from liability for damage they may cause to parts of a highway laid out with grass, such as grass verges, by the storage of rollers and other heavy plant. The Amendment seeks to make it clear that relief from that liability is not to be retrospective, but is to apply only where the damage is caused by plant or material after six months from the passing of the Bill.There is a further Amendment. Clause 14, at present included in Part I of the Bill, will find a more appropriate place among the Miscellaneous Clauses in Part III. The purpose of the second Amendment is to transfer it from its present place in the code so that it will become Clause 29 of the Bill.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clause, as amended, transferred to the end of line 14, page 41, as Clause 29 of the Bill.—[Mr. Barnes.]