THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (THE MARQUESS OF LONDON-DERRY)My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to enable highway authorities and the owners of bridges carrying public carriage roads to make arrangements with respect to the maintenance, improvement, reconstruction and transfer of such bridges and of the approaches thereto and the roads carried thereby; to empower the Minister of Transport in the absence of any such agreement to make Orders with respect to the matters aforesaid, 866 and for purposes incidental to the making of such agreements and Orders; and to move that it be read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(The Marquess of Londonderry.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1a, and to be printed.