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Clause 17, page 17, line 27, leave out ("road") and insert ("highway and where any such locomotive is drawing a trailer or trailers on a highway one or more persons, in addition to the persons employed as
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aforesaid shall be employed for the purpose of attending to the trailer or trailers at the rate of one such additional person for each trailer in excess of one.
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a road roller while engaged in rolling a road.")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 28, after ("vehicle") insert ("other than a heavy locomotive or a light locomotive.")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 28, leave out ("more than one") and insert ("a")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 29, after ("trailer") insert ("or trailers")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 29, leave out ("road") and insert ("highway")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 29, leave out ("or more persons") and insert ("person")
§ Clause 17, page 17, line 30, leave out ("persons employed in driving and attending to") and insert ("driver of")
§ Page 17, line 31, leave out ("employed") and insert ("carried either on the vehicle or on a trailer")
§ Page 17, line 32, after first ("the") insert ("trailer or.")
§ Page 17, line 32, leave out from ("trailers") to end of subsection.
§ Page 17, line 37, after ("any") insert ("agricultural")
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Page 17, line 40, at end insert:
("(5) The Minister may by regulation vary the requirements of this section in respect of any class or description of motor vehicles or any class or description of trailers.")
EARL RUSSELLMy Lords, these Amendments to Clause 17 should be read together. As the Bill left your Lordship's House the clause provided that where a motor vehicle was drawing a trailer or trailers one or more persons in addition to the person employed in attending to the vehicle should be employed to attend to the trailers at the rate of one additional person for each additional trailer in excess of one. The provision was left intact so far as locomotives were concerned. As regards other motor vehicles an Amendment was made in Committee providing that one person in addition to the driver shall be carried on the vehicle or on the trailer for the purpose of attending to the trailer or trailers; that is to say, even in a case of a vehicle drawing only one trailer. Afterwards it was pointed out that a general provision of this kind would in certain cases inflict hardship or even could not be complied with; for instance, in the case of articulated vehicles and the light caravans or luggage carriers attached to ordinary motor cars and trailers of the container type which, I am told, are largely used for the transfer of meat from the docks.
A new subsection was added on Report which provided that the Minister might 836 by regulation vary the requirements of the clause in respect of any class or description of trailers. That covers all these Amendments to Clause 17 and perhaps I might move them en bloc.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Earl Russell.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.