Schedule 5 - Schedule 22A to the Highways Act 1980
Traffic Management Bill
Public Bill Committees, 3 February 2004, 5:30 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Harrow East, Labour)
Let me turn round the argument that the hon. Gentleman has been pursuing for the best part of the day. That duty has been in the Highways Act since 1980 and there is no substantial difference between what has prevailed in the last 24 years and what will prevail if a fixed penalty notice is added to it. If it has been a calamity to have such an oppressive measure for the past 24 years, that will not change just because of the introduction of a fixed penalty notice. If
that has not happened in the past 24 years, it will not happen because of the subsequent addition of fixed penalty offence status, rather than the status afforded by the relevant part of the principal Act, in this case the Highways Act 1980. I explained the position to the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire in terms of the lighting on skips.
Question put, That this schedule be the fifth schedule to the Bill:—
The Committee divided: Ayes 7, Noes 3.