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DANGEROUS-LOADS PLAN FOR U.K. WITH NO DELAY
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BRITAIN is to go ahead with its own scheme for regulating the carriage of dangerous substances by road.
"There is no prospect of international agreement . . . before next year ". said Mr. George Thomas,-Under Secretary at the Home Office, when he told MPs last week of the "go it alone" decision.
He recalled that a working party on the marking of road tank vehicles had drafted a voluntary scheme of marking, but that the introduction of a scheme had been deferred pending the outcome of international negotiations on this and related matters.
Certain other committees, including the working committee on inflammable substances, had also from time to time considered problems concerned with dangerous substances.
In order to avoid further delay, as well as to co-ordinate these various activities, the Home Secretary had suggested to the local authority associations and other interested bodies that the working party on inflammable substances should be reconstituted as the standing advisory committee on dangerous substances, went on Mr. Thomas.
The new committee, he explained, would advise the Home Secretary on all questions falling within his sphere of responsibility which related to the control of dangerous substances in the interests of the safety of the public, and he would ask it to examine urgently how best to extend the scope of existing regulations on the carriage of dangerous substances by road.