§ Order for Second Reading read.
11.30 am§ The Solicitor-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
The Bill's purpose is to reconsolidate that part of the law relating to road traffic which was last consolidated by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 because there have been substantial amendments to the law since then. The Bill incorporates Law Commission recommendations and has been considered by the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills for whose labours we are, as ever, grateful.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read a Second time.
§ Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr. Neubert.]
§ Bill immediately considered in Committee.
§ Clauses 1 to 147 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Schedules 1 to 14 agreed to.
§ Bill reported, without amendment.
§ Motion made, and Question, That the Bill be now read the Third time, put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 58 (Third Reading), and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read the Third time, and passed, without amendment.