Traffic Bill goes to Lords
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rrRoad Traffic (Amendment) Bill, vi,ich tightens up the control over operators with defective lorries, was approved by the Commons last week, and now goes to the House of Lords.
Welcoming the Bill, Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke (Tory, Twickenham) said that roadside checks were not sufficiently binding, because the vehicle could be stopped, but the operator could continue to run it.
"The Bill is an attempt to put that right in that a certificate has to be given to the operator, specifying what the defects are, and the operator has to put them right within 30 days. During that time the Ministry inspector can come along and see if the defects have been remedied".
Mr. Stephen Swingler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, recalled that the Bill also increased certain penalties, stopped the sale of defective second-hand vehicles, subjected imported vehicles to tests according to their real age, and provided for urban district councils to be able to carry out testing operations.