Schedule 5 - Schedule 22A to the Highways Act 1980
Traffic Management Bill
5:30 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Harrow East, Labour)
As I understand it, under the existing licensing regime owners of skips are under precisely that higher duty. If there is a skip as an obstacle on the roadside it must, under current licensing regimes, be fully lit at night, in ways that stationed cars do not have to be. I will advise the right hon. Gentleman if the situation is not as I have stated, but as I understand it, as part of the licensing regime, certainly in London and I suspect outside, a skip must be lit at night to show to people that there is this stationary obstacle that is not as it should be. The skip should be properly lighted during the hours of darkness; whether with reflective or fluorescent material or otherwise, it is so marked. That is absolutely the case, apparently, according to clause 139 of something or other, which I will let the Committee know about in a moment.