§ Mr. Barnettasked the Minister of Transport if she will make regulations to allow a man and wife, or parent and child, to travel in a three-wheeled invalid car.
§ Mr. John MorrisIf an invalid vehicle is to attract the various concessions which apply to an "invalid carriage" as defined in the Road Traffic Act, 1960, it must be used solely by the invalid. My right hon. Friend has no power to vary that provision.
Carrying additional passengers in other vehicles driven by an invalid would appear to be banned by law only if in the particular circumstances there were an infringement of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations requirement that the number of passengers carried in a motor vehicle and the manner in which any passengers are carried shall be such that no danger is caused or is likely to be caused. She would not be justified in exempting vehicles used by invalids from this requirement.
The presence of passengers in a vehicle specially designed and constructed to carry only an invalid can give rise to danger.