HC Deb 30 May 1956 vol 553 cc298-9
Mr. Watkinson

I beg to move, in page 27, line 40, at the end to insert: (3) Subsection (1) of section forty of the Act of 1930, in so far as it provides for the production of test certificates and the giving of names and addresses, shall apply to a person in connection with any vehicle to which section (Obligatory test certificates) of this Act applies notwithstanding that he or the vehicle is or was at any material time in the public service of the Crown. The purposes of the Amendment is to ensure that any person in charge of a Crown vehicle or any person on Crown service, is not, on that account, relieved of the obligation, where it would otherwise rest upon him, to produce a test certificate for the vehicle. This is subject to Crown vehicles coming under the testing requirements, as they probably will.

Mr. G. R. Strauss

I could not quite understand the explanation which the Minister has given. I am not quite clear whether a Crown vehicle ten years old will come under the testing provisions.

Mr. Watkinson

Yes.

Mr. Ede

Will "Crown vehicle" include the military vehicles of the Armed Forces?

Mr. Watkinson

I should like to look into that point. Perhaps I can let the right hon. Gentleman know, when I have done so. What I meant was the vehicle like a Post Office delivery van, which is very much the same kind of vehicle as any other.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.