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Expiring Laws Continuance Money
Resolution reported,
"That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to continue certain expiring laws, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such expenses, and the payment into the Exchequer of such receipts, as may be occasioned by the continuance of the Debts Clearing Offices and Import Restrictions Act, 1934, until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and by the continuance of the Special Areas (Amendment) Act, 1937, until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, being expenses or receipts which, under or by virtue of either of the two last mentioned Acts, are to be defrayed out of such moneys or paid into the Exchequer."
Resolution agreed to.
Prevention Of Fraud (Invest- Ments) Money
Resolution reported,
"That, for the purposes of an), Act of the present Session to provide (among other things) for regulating the business of dealing in securities, it is expedient to authorise—
(a) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of the expenses incurred for the purposes of the said Act by the Board of Trade (including the payment of such remuneration to the members of any tribunal constituted under the said Act to discharge functions in connection with the granting and revocation of licences, and such expenses of the said tribunal, as may be approved by the Treasury), and
(b) the payment into the Exchequer of all fees received by the Board of Trade by virtue of the said Act."
Resolution agreed to.
Road Traffic Acts
10.57 p.m.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
(Captain Austin Hudson)
I beg to move,
I will explain this Order to the House in a few words. For some years past, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, on behalf of the Ministry of Transport, has been conducting experiments with certain vehicles with a view to the improvement of road surfaces and the prevention of skidding, and some of these vehicles are subject to the speed limit. For instance, some of these experiments are carried out by a vehicle and a trailer, and such a vehicle is subject to a speed of 20 miles per hour; and these limits in certain cases are so low as to prevent the satisfactory conducting of the test. This Order exempts such vehicles from the Schedule while they are being used for tests of this kind. All such tests are carried out under the supervision of technical officers of my Department, after consultation with the police. I assure the House that these Regulations do not grant exemption for vehicles from the speed limit in the 30 miles per hour built-up areas."That the Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limit) Regulations, 1938, which were presented on the 8th November, 1938, be approved."
Question put, and agreed to.
Land Registration Acts
Resolved,
"That the draft of an Order in Council declaring that registration of title to land is to be compulsory on sale in the county borough of Croydon, which was presented to this House on the sixteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, be approved. "—[The Attorney-General.]
The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
Adjournment
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn." —[ Captain Margesson.]
Adjourned accordingly at One Minute before Eleven o'Clock.