HC Deb 12 April 1960 vol 621 cc1164-6

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") to facilitate the enforcement and administration of the law relating to road traffic and to vehicles on roads by providing for the punishment without a prosecution of offences in connection with lights or reflectors on vehicles, or with obstruction, waiting, parking and kindred matters, and for the employment of traffic wardens in aid of the police, it is expedient to authorise—

  1. 1. The payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—
    1. (1) any expenses incurred by the Minister of Transport—
      1. (a) in making grants towards the cost of the provision and maintenance, in the metropolitan police district or the City of London, of off-street parking places;
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      2. (b) in placing traffic signs on or near roads in the London Traffic Area;
      3. (c) in exercising default powers in respect of duties with respect to obstructions or traffic signs;
      4. (d) under arrangements entered into by him for the temporary provision of parking accommodation for vehicles in the metropolitan police district or the City of London, elsewhere than on the highway, in respect of the following matters (including his expenditure in making payments to any other person in respect of expenses incurred for those matters by that person), that is to say—
        1. (i) obtaining or making available a site for use as parking accommodation;
        2. (ii) preparing or adapting a site for use as parking accommodation, or restoring it after that use;
        3. (iii) controlling and managing the site during its use as parking accommodation, and meeting any liability arising out of that use or out of anything done in the course of that use;
      5. (e) in executing works for the improvement of a highway in the metropolitan police district or the City of London;
    2. (2) any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under section four of the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act, 1955, or section two hundred and thirty-six of the Highways Act, 1959, being an increase attributable to any provisions of the new Act enabling the Minister of Transport to make, under subsection (1) of section eight of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, or subsection (1) of section two hundred and thirty-five of the Highways 1166 Act, 1959, grants for the improvement of classified roads in the metropolitan police district or the City of London.
    3. (3) any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under subsection (7) of section ninety of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, being an increase attributable to any provisions of the new Act extending the power of the Minister of Transport to make orders under subsection (5) of section eighty- five of the said Act of 1960;
    4. (4) any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment, being an increase attributable to any provision of the new Act providing that the widening of the carriageway of a highway shall not be treated as being otherwise than an improvement by reason only of the fact that it involves diminution of, or removal of. a footway thereon;
    5. (5)any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under section three of the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act, 1950. being an increase attributable to any provisions of the new Act relating to the appointment of traffic wardens;
    6. (6)any increase attributable to the new Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided by way of Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland;
  2. 2. The payment into the Exchequer of any sums received under or by virtue of the new Act by the Minister of Transport or any other government department and of any increase attributable to that Act in the sums payable into the Exchequer under any other enactment.

Resolution agreed to.