HC Deb 29 May 1968 vol 765 cc1941-3

WRITTEN RECORDS

Amendments made: No. 366, in page 121, leave out lines 1 to 21 and insert:

  1. (1) The Minister may make regulations—
    1. (a) for requiring drivers to keep such books as may be specified in the regulations and to make in them entries with respect to such matters relevant to the enforcement of this Part of this Act as may be so specified; and
    2. (b) for requiring owner-drivers and the employers of employee-drivers to maintain such registers as may be so specified with respect to any such books as aforesaid which are in their possession or in that of any employee-drivers in their employment.
  2. (2) Regulations under this section may contain such supplementary and incidental provisions as the Minister thinks necessary or expedient, including in particular provisions—.

No. 369, in page 121, line 22, leave out ' such books ' and insert: ' books and registers required for the purposes of the regulations'.

No. 370, in page 121, line 28, at end insert: (d) as to the issue by and return to the employers of employee-drivers of books required to be kept by the latter for the purposes of the regulations.

No. 371, in page 121, line 30, leave out ' subsection (1) of this section ' and insert ' the regulations'.

No. 372, in page 121, line 31, after ' vehicle ' insert: 'as to the preservation of any books and registers used for those purposes'.

No. 373, in page 121, line 32, leave out from ' which' to ' are' in line 33 and insert ' those books and registers'.

No. 374, in page 121, line 34, leave out subsection (4) and insert: (e) for exemptions from all or any of the requirements of the regulations in respect of drivers of small goods vehicles as defined in section 98(5) of this Act and for other exemptions from all or any of those requirements.

No. 375, in page 122, line 1, leave out ' by or'.

No. 376, in page 122, line 8, leave out from second 'of to ' or' in line 10 and insert: ' regulations made under this section'.

No. 377, in page 122, line 16, at end insert: 'but a person shall not be liable to be convicted under this subsection on the ground that he has permitted another person to contravene any of those provisions if he proves to the court that he has taken reasonable steps to bring the requirements of that provision to the notice of that person and has from time to time taken reasonable steps to secure that that person is complying with those requirements'.

No. 378, in page 122, line 18, leave out 'subsection (1) of' and insert 'regulations under'.—[Mr. Marsh.]

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