Clause 42 - Directions relating to
Traffic Management Bill
3:30 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
I shall be brief, Mr. Beard. Amendment No. 204 seeks to insert, in subsection (4) on page 20, the word ''solely'', so that the provision reads that
''an undertaker shall be taken not to have failed to fulfil any statutory duty to afford a supply or service if, or to the extent that, his failure is solely attributable to a direction under this section.''
If one is saying that there is a new power to make directions, and that that has an effect upon an outcome, that is what it should be. It should not be partially that, and partially something else. I would be interested in the Minister's comments.