§ Mr. CarmichaelI beg to move Amendment No. 42, in page 21, line 10, at end add:
(2) Regulations under subsection (9) of section 14 of the Road Safety Act 1967 (which enables regulations to provide that licences under the Act of 1962 shall not be granted for goods vehicles to which subsection (2) or subsection (3) of that section applies unless evidence is produced that test certificates are in force for the vehicles or that they comply with the relevant type approval requirements) may be made so as to apply to such classes only of those vehicles as may be specified in the regulations.The purpose of the Amendment is to enable regulations to be made progessively for particular classes of goods vehicle providing that no Excise licence can be issued without the production of a valid test certificate and eventually a type approval certificate.
§ Amendment agreed to.