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S. Wales LA criticized
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• The manner in which a number of charges were brought against a fruit merchant by the South Wales traffic area was criticized by the Port Talbot magistrates' clerk last week.
Mr. Thomas Richards, of Merthyr Tydfil, had pleaded guilty to 12 charges of failing to have a plating certificate, contrary to Section 14 (1) of the Road Safety Act, 1967, and 12 charges of failing to have a test certificate contrary to Section 14 121 of the same Act.
The magistrates imposed a fine of £3 on one charge of fading to have a plating certificate and £3 on one charge of failing to have a test certificate. Mr. Richards was given an absolute discharge on the other 22.
In evidence, it was said that he was stopped by the MoT in a routine roadside check in July 1969 and found not to possess plating or test certificates. On examination of his log book he was found to have used the vehicle on 11 other occasions under similar circumstances.
The magistrates' clerk questioned Mr. W. S. Tillyard, representing the S. Wales LA, on the Authority's purpose in preferring all the charges.
Surely, he said, it would have been sufficient to charge him with the offences relevant to the day in question, even though he had obviously committed the other offences on previous occasions.