Are Lorries Premises'? C AN the word " premises " apply
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to a road vehicle?—he had been told this was arguable, said Lord Derwent, Minister of State at the Board of Trade, when the Lords this week discussed whether weights and measures inspectors should have the power to stop lorries.
Lord Derwent pointed out that the Weights and Measures Bill says an inspector can "Inspect and test any weighing or measuring equipment which is used for trade or in the possession of any person or upon any premises for such use ".
He could not accept an amendment by Lord Stonham which deleted the section of the Bill saying that inspectors were not authorized to stop vehicles on the highway.
After hearing this, Lord Stonham withdrew his amendment, saying that Lord Derwent would find that a lorry was a motor vehicle so long as it was moving and "premises" when it stopped. What they were concerned with, said Lord Stonham, was the right of an inspector to stop.
The House accepted an amendment which provided that no contract for the sale or carriage for reward of any goods should be void just because a delivery note was not supplied.
Last week the Lords had rejected
by 53 votes to 21 an Opposition amendment to the Weights and Measures Bill which would have made written quantity statements compulsory in small sales of solid and liquid fuels from road vehicles.
Moved by Lord Latham, the amendment sought to remove from the Bill the exemption from the need for these statements in retail sales of solid fuel and wood fuel of less than two cwt. and of liquid fuel and lubricating oil in quantities not exceeding five gallons.