Enough's enough
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A committee of inquiry to end all committees of inquiry has be proposed by Malcolm Banks, president of the Freight Transp Association. It would ''investigate the total effects on industry of the other committees, commissions, agencies, government depments and all the rest." The result might, he says, be a reversal "the pernicious process whereby laws which are ineffective throu lack of enforcement are supplemented by additional, more resti tive laws which are still less capable of being enforced.
Malcolm Banks has particularly in mind the 12 different enfor ment bodies controlling road transport, the 600 separate pie( of paper required for every driver and the 16 statutes and regu tions on drivers' hours alone. It needs a Mastermind even to be to comprehend them all.