§ 96. Mr. Cooperasked the Minister of Transport if, in setting up the area consultative committees, he will ensure that these subsidiary bodies under the Central Transport Consultative Committee are built up on a representative basis as a result of local selection rather than that the members should be appointed either by the Minister of by the Central Transport Consultative Committee.
§ Mr. BarnesThe Transport Act, 1947, provides that the members of the area committees shall be appointed by the Minister of Transport, but before the Minister appoints the members of such a Committee he is under the obligation to consult those bodies representative of the interests in the area which the Act requires to be represented upon it.