Authority Contravened Act, says Railway Counsel

26th September 1952, Page 71

26th September 1952

Page 71

Page 71, 26th September 1952 — Authority Contravened Act, says Railway Counsel

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AN allegation that the Scottish Licensing Authority contravened the Road Traffic Act by taking into consideration irrelevant factors was made by Mr. A. Thomson, for the Railway Executive, to Mr. E. I. Keith, Q.C., Ministry of Transport inspector, last week, when the Executive and Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., appealed against a grant to Cotter's Motor Tours, Ltd., to run

tours from Edinburgh to the Continent.

Mr. Thomson said: " Continental tours, and what happens when they are across the Channel, are no consideration of the Licensing Authority. All that should interest them is the route from the terminus at one end to the terminus at the other in this country."

Mr. Keith interposed: " If a licence is granted for the British part of the journey it is very difficult to ignore everything else."

Mr. Thomson replied that the Continental part of a tour Was a subsidiary consideration and that the primary purpose of the Act was to ensure adequate facilities in this country.

Mr. W. B. Norwell, for the respondent, said that whilst he agreed that the Authority should have jurisdiction only within Britain, he was also entitled to consider the comfort and convenience of passengers. People in Edinburgh • should not have to travel to Glasgow to join a Continental tour.

Z-1. A PAPER entitled "Transport Prob

lems in the Export Trade" will be read by R. R. J. Plummer at a meeting of the north-western section of the Institute of Transport on September 30._ Mr. A. B. B. Valentine, president of the Institute, will visit the section. TRANSPORT AND EXPORT