Moved by
Earl Attlee
201A: After Clause 104, insert the following new Clause—
“General regulation of construction, use etc
In section 44 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (authorisation of use on roads of special vehicles not complying with regulations under section 41), after subsection (3) insert—
“(4) Any order made under this section must—
(a) make provision for the notification by an abnormal load haulier to the relevant Chief Constable to be able to be made by data sentence transfer as well as hard copy, e-mail or fax, and
(b) make it clear that the relevant Chief Constable to be notified cannot insist on a notification being made using a particular piece of software.””