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Abnormal Loads: Mobile Phones

Volume 620: debated on Wednesday 20 December 2000

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Earl Attlee

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 22 November (

WA 74), whether the

authorisation of Special Types (General Order) 1979 either:

  • (a) requires mobile phones to be available to the crew of a vehicle carrying an abnormal load; or
  • (b) enables the police to require one to be available. [HL126]

    • Lord Bassam of Brighton

    The Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1979 makes no provision for either (a) or (b).

    Earl Attlee

    asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 22 November (

    WA 74), whether the Association of Chief Police Officers has issued guidelines recommending the use of either two-way radios or mobile phones as the normal means of communication between the police and the abnormal load's "second man"; and if so, when. [HL127]

    Lord Bassam of Brighton

    No such guidelines have been issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers.