Mr. John D. TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 1 March,Official Report, column 747, what distinction is made between the flags of sovereign nations and states and those of non-sovereign nations, British dependencies, territories or colonies. [19606]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe provision in schedule 2—class 1—to the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992 refer to "the national flag of any country", without further interpretation. It would be for the court to interpret how these provisions should apply to a particular flag. No judicial authority is known to my Department.