§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move Amendment No. 69, in page 60, line 31, at end insert:
() In paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to the principal Act (publication of notice of application for order of magistrates' court authorising the stopping up or diversion of a highway) for the words 'Once at least in each of two successive weeks' there shall be substituted the words 'At least twenty-eight days before 501 the day on which the application is made' and for the words 'a local newspaper' there shall be substituted the words 'at least one local newspaper'.This Amendment deals with the publication of a notice of intention to apply for an order stopping up a highway and it seeks to make it obligatory to give 28 days' notice. The Amendment would require a highway authority, where it intended to apply to the magistrate's court for an order stopping up or diverting a highway under Section 108 of the 1959 Act, to publish notice of its intention in the London Gazette and at least one local newspaper at least 28 days before the application is made. Although the notices on the highways concerned have to be displayed at least 28 days before the application is made to the magistrate, there is no similar requirement for the publication of notices in the London Gazette and in the local newspaper. The present procedure is that the minimum period of notice should be 14 days. I think it right to bring this in line with the display of the notices and to say that there must be a 28-days' notice in the London Gazette and the local newspaper. This makes the procedure consistent.
§ Amendment agreed to.