§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister of Transport whether, as a means of relieving pressure on the police, local licensing authorities and the courts, she will seek to institute a system of enforcement of the payment of road fund licences by means of a stick-on official notification of presentation of a road fund licence within a given period.
§ Mr. John MorrisNo. I have no reason to think that such notices would be particularly effective and investigation of the apparent offence would still be necessary on the present basis.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister of Transport whether she will introduce an additional method of enforcing the payment of road fund licences by enabling the police and traffic wardens to stick on to windscreens of vehicles failing to show a licence a notice that such a licence must be produced and authenticated on the attached tear-off slip by a local postmaster, police station or licensing authority, who will return this to the appropriate licensing authority, and that failing this, within seven days an automatic fine will, subject to appeal, be imposed.
§ Mr. John MorrisNo. Apart from the difficulties of identifying and prosecuting offenders where the notices had not been cleared, it would not be practicable to determine a proper level for an automatic fine to be fair to all.