Setback for New Regulations
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THE regulations saying that pedestrian' controlled vehicles are not motor vehicles received a set-back in their progress through Parliament last week when there was stiff opposition from several Peers.
In the face of this hostility Lord Chesham, joint Parliamentary Secretarv to the Ministry of Transport withdrew the motion asking for the regulations to be approved, and Lord Hailsharn promised that he would study them in view of the points which had been raised.
First critic was Lord Faringdon, who complained that these vehicles were being relieved from the necessity for third-party insurance, and could have fewer lights.
Lord Lucas of Chilworth described the proposed change as "a most retrograde step.", and asked that the regulations should be looked at again.
Lork Hawke believed that Lord Lucas was making a great bother out of very little, but the anxieties about insurance were echoed by Lord Chorley.
After Lord Alexander of Hillsborough. leader of the Opposition Peers, had suggested that the matter might be delayed a short while before the House was asked for a final decision, the regulations were withdrawn.
Dipped Headlamp AAR. MARPLES announced in the IV1 Commons last week that the Road Research Laboratory hopes to let him have its comments on the Birmingham dipped headlamp experiment by the end of June.