§ Order of the Day for the Third Reading read.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 3a"—(The Lord Sudeley.)
§ THE EARL OF WEMYSSasked for some information with regard to the sentence in the Bill—"Close on a highway or place of public resort dedicated to the public." In "another place" there was a Bill called "Access to Mountains (Scotland) Bill." Assuming that that Bill were to come to their Lordships' House, and were to pass, which he hoped would not be the case, would a place of public resort include a Scotch mountain, such as Ben Nevis, and would it be dedicated to the public?
§ LORD THRING, in reply, said, he thought it would not apply to mountains in any case. A mountain itself would not be dedicated to the public, though they might have resort to it. Those words were put in the Bill in order to mark the difference between highways and other places of public resort, such as markets, and a mountain could not be such a place.
§ THE EARL OF WEMYSSsaid, it only showed the difficulties their Lordships were in from this sort of legislation.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Amendments made.
§ Bill read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Ten o'clock.