§ Clause 102, page 75, leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert:—
§ ("(2) Any expenses incurred by a town or county council under this Act shall be defrayed out of such rate leviable by the council and payable by owners and occupiers in equal proportions as the council may determine.
§ (3) A county or a town council shall have power to borrow such sums as they may require for the purpose of the payment of the consideration for a transfer under Section fifty-three of this Act or for the purposes of Part V or of Section one hundred and nineteen of this Act or for the purpose of the erection, or of making a contribution towards the erection, in pursuance of Section twenty-seven, of any machine for weighing motor vehicles and trailers, and any sum so borrowed shall be repaid within such period as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State after consultation with the Minister.
§ (4) Except where otherwise expressly provided the expression 'highway authority' means a county council or the town council of a burgh charged with the maintenance and management of any of the highways therein.")
§ Page 75, line 27, at end insert ("and as if for any reference to a court of summary jurisdiction there were substituted a reference to the sheriff.")
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Page 75, line 27, at end insert:
("(6) For the purposes of Section one hundred and fifteen of and the Fourth Schedule to this Act the expression 'local authority ' shall mean a county or town council.
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Page 76, line 13, at end insert:
("It shall be lawful to convict a person of a contravention of Section forty-nine of this Act on the evidence of one witness.")
§ Page 78, line 11, leave out ("for the use of")
§ Page 78, line 16, after ("under") insert ("the foregoing provisions of")
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Page 78, line 18, at end insert:
("(9) Nothing in this section shall authorise the execution of any works on, over, or under tidal lands below high-water mark of ordinary spring tides except in accordance with such plans and sections and subject to such restrictions and regulations as previous to such works being commenced have been approved by the Board of Trade in writing under the hand of one of the secretaries or assistant secretaries of the Board of Trade.
§ (10) Where in pursuance of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this section a local authority provide a parking place which may be used by public service vehicles the local authority may, if it thinks fit, by order appoint that parking place as a station for such vehicles, and where a parking place is so appointed the local authority may—
- (a) with the consent of the Minister do all such things as are necessary to adapt the parking place for use as a station for public service vehicles and, in particular, provide and maintain waiting rooms, ticket offices, and lavatories and other similar accommodation in connection therewith; and
- (b) make reasonable charges for the use of, or let on hire to any person, any accommodation so provided; and
- (c) make regulations as to the use of any such accommodation.
§ (11) The provisions of subsection (4), (5), (6), and (8) of Section eighty-nine of this Act shall apply to any order under the foregoing subsection of this section in like manner as they apply to an order under subsection (2) of that section.")
§ Clause 104, page 78, line 27, at end insert ("'Public service vehicle' means a motor vehicle used for carrying passengers for hire or reward other than a vehicle which is a contract carriage within the meaning of this Act adapted to carry less than eight passengers or a tramcar or a trolley vehicle.").
§ Page 79, line 2, at end insert ("'Fares' includes sums payable in respect of a contract ticket or a season ticket")
§ Page 79, line 3, at end insert ("'Forestry' includes the felling of trees and haulage thereof")
§ Page 79, line 4, leave out ("public").
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Page 79, line 6, at end insert:
("'Highway authority,' in relation to any roads, means the authority (being either the council of a county, the council of a county borough, the council of an urban district, the Common Council of the City
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of London, or the council of a Metropolitan Borough) which is responsible for the maintenance of the road.")
§ Leave out lines 7 and 8.
§ Page 79, line 18, leave out from ("and,") to end of line 22, and insert ("for the purpose of proceedings for an offence in connection with any such vehicle against any person other than the driver of the vehicle, the person nominated on that behalf by the department in whose service the vehicle is used shall be deemed to be the person actually responsible unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the driver only was responsible."
§ Page 79, line 20, after (0 years ") insert (" of age ")
§ Page 79, line 33, after ("vehicles") insert ("owned by the Admiralty, the War Department, or the Air Ministry, and")
§ Page 79, line 34, after ("purposes") insert ("or in the case of vehicles so used")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 4, leave out front ("Act") to ("any") in line 5 and insert ("(including any local Act passed at any time in the present Session of Parliament as confers or imposes on any person any power, right or obligation Which by)")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 6, leave out ("are") and insert ("or by this Act (otherwise than by Part V thereof is conferred or imposed on any person is")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 6, leave out from ("repealed") to end of subsection.
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 10, leave out from the beginning to ("nothing") in line 11 and insert ("Provided that")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 12, leave out ("or licences granted or certificates issued") and insert ("by the Minister")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 14, after ("repealed") insert ("or any licences granted under the Motor Car Act, 1903.")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 14, after ("regulation") insert ("or")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 15, leave out ("or certificate")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 15, leave out ("issued") and insert ("granted")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 16, at end insert ("subject, however, to the following modifications and qualifications")
§ Clause 105, page 80, line 17, leave out ("Provided that")
§ Page 80, line 44, at end insert ("and any expressions in any orders or regulations made under any other repealed enactments shall bear the same meaning as they bore immediately before the commencement of this Act").
§ LORD PONSONBY OF SHULBREDEMy Lords, we now come to the end of the Bill, not counting the Schedules. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.