HC Deb 24 February 1969 vol 778 cc1220-1
Mr. Speaker

The next Amendment is No. 34, with which I suggest we take Government Amendments No. 37 and 40.

Mr. Carmichael

I beg to move Amendment No. 34, in page 17, line 22, leave out from ' person ' to second ' the ' in line 24 and insert: ' is required to be endorsed in pursuance of any enactment or was granted in error or with an error or omission in the particulars specified in the licence or required to be so endorsed on it '. This group of Amendments, which is largely technical, is concerned with the recovery of driving licences where the holder has been convicted of an offence and the court has ordered his driving licence to be endorsed.

Amendment agreed to.

Mr. Speaker

The next Amendment is Amendment No. 35, with which I suggest we take Government Amendment No. 36.

Mr. Carmichael

I beg to move Amendment No. 35, in page 17, line 33, leave out ' together ' and insert: ' and in the case of a provisional licence as respects which the prescribed conditions are satisfied '. The effect of the Amendment is to narrow the Minister's powers in the new Section 102(3). Instead of providing that where a notification is being made of a change in a licence holder's name or address all licence holders must state date of birth and sex, only provisional licence holders must do so, and only in prescribed circumstances.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: No. 36, in page 17, line 34, leave out from ' birth ' to end of line 36.

No. 37, in page 17, line 43, leave out from ' error ' to end of line 11 on page 18 and insert: ' or omission appearing to the authority to be attributable to that person's fault or in consequence of a current disqualification; and (b) may in such an excepted case which does not involve a current disqualification, grant to that person free of charge a new licence for the period for which the surrendered licence was granted; and where the holder of a licence surrenders it to the licensing authority with a view to exchanging it for a new licence and applies for the new licence in pursuance of the last foregoing section and pays the prescribed fee, the authority shall grant him the new licence to continue in force only for the remainder of the period for which the surrendered licence was granted '.—[Mr. Carmichael.]

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