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HE PROPOSED Scottish Lssembly last week lost its ,ower to supervise the issue of pecial permits for buses.
By 93 votes to 79, peers altred the Scotland Bill — gainst Government advice — o bring about this change and L. is a change which could be thjected to when the measure ;oes back to the Commons.
The amendment was moved )y Lord Campbell of Croy, vho said that it dealt with ;ection 30 of the 1968 Trans)ort Act. Road service licening was the basis of the whole 3ritish public road passenger .ransport system, he said, and .here was a need for unifornity throughout the country.
There should be no possible .eason for the border becomng an obstacle of any kind. At resent there was an in:Teasing flow of traffic across the border, both north and 5outh.
If a different system of conditions were to be introduced D n one side of the border it would cause discouragement to road passenger transport.