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Lords Amendment No. 13: In page 32, line 6, at end insert:
( ) No person engaged in or about the carriage of mail and no Officer, Servant, Agent or Sub-Contractor of such person shall be subject except at the suit of the Post Office to any civil liability for any loss or damage in the case of which liability of the Post Office therefor is excluded by subsection (1) of this section.
§ Mr. StonehouseI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
The object of the Lords Amendment is to extend to carriers of mails certain exemptions from liability in respect of the carriage of mail enjoyed by the present Post Office and transferred to the new Post Office by Clause 29 of the Bill. We recommend that this Amendment be accepted because we have concluded that this change, while improving the law, will have no significant effect on the ordinary user of the postal services.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendment agreed to.