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Attempt to Halve " Disqualification" Offences
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FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
A MENDMENTS to the Road Traffic 1-1 Bill which would prove highly acceptable to the opponents of the
" th ree-i n-th ree -yea rs disqualification clause have been tabled by Mr. Ronald Bell, a barrister who is Tory M.P. for South Bucks.
Mr. Bell proposes that the controversial Part II of the First Schedule should be split, leaving some offences still covered by collective disqualification, but removing into a new subdivision those offences regarded by many as not worthy of such harsh penalties.
Into this third category would go 12 'offences: speeding, leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position, failure to comply with traffic directions, failure to stop and give particulars after an accident, driving without a licence, failure to comply with the conditions of a provisional licence, unlawfully carrying a motorcycle passenger, failure to obey a school crossing patrol sign, and centravention of the regulations governing construction and use, special roads, pedestrian crossings and street playgrounds.
Magistrates would retain discretionary powers to disqualify for all these offences and to order licence endorsement if this punishment was applied. But the courts would not be obliged to disqualify for a minimum of six months if an offender committed any of these offences three times in three years, or combined them with any of the more serious offences in this period.
This would still leave the " three-inthree " group of offences a strong one, Apart from the serious offences listed in Part 1 of the Schedule (from manslaughter to driving while disqualified), the trimmed-down Part II would still contain the offences of dangerous driving, careless driving, contravention of the age limits, drunk in charge, theft and driving while uninsured', among others.
In all, the number of offences listed for collective obligatory disqualification would total 13, instead, of the 25 proposed by Mr. Marples' Bill.
Artie Amendment Sought Among other amendments tabled for the Bill, which goes into committee soon, is one from Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, vice-chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Transport Committee, relating to articulated vehicles.
He will move a new clause stating that a vehicle capable of division into two parts, both of which are vehicles, shall when not divided be treated for the purposes of the -principal Act as a motor vehicle and trailer.