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NOW MPs TRY TO WIDEN ANTI-POLLUTION POWERS
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From Our Political Correspondent
ik N attempt to tighten the law's control rk over vehicle smoke, fumes and other pollution has been launched in Parliament by Mr. Robert Edwards, Labour MP for Bilston.
. Backed by eight other Labour MPs, he has introduced a Bill to amend the Construction and Use Regulations to make it an offence to use a vehicle that emits smoke, visible vapour, grit, sparks, ashes, cinders or "oily substance" in a was that constitutes a 'nuisance.
At present, the Regulations are confined to pollution which is likely to cause damage, injury or danger.
The move has been made in the context of a general Bill on air pollution. As a private member's measure it stands little chance of a place in Parliament's timetable, unless the Government chooses to aid it This is unlikely, as few Governments favour tinkering with established legislation without lu sing the major hand in it themselves.
The last recorded statement from the Ministry of Transport on the subject came from Mr. Stephen Swingler (Parliamentary Secretary) who said on March 8 that new Regulations controlling exhaust fumes would be made if and when research now going on showed them to be "necessary and practicable".
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transport is concentrating its efforts on the big job in hand, preparing a major Transport Bill for presentation to Parliament's next session.
This Bill will be highly controversial, containing the proposals for the NFO and the CTAs, and possibly licensing reform as well, though the latter has not been finally timetabled. .
One, or perhaps two White Papers will precede the Rill, setting out in more detail the actual proposals for the National Freight Organization and the CTAs. This information is scheduled for publication during the autumn, probably while Parliament is dispersed for the summer recess.