Road Safety Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 121:"Page 37, line 40, leave out from beginning to ““courses”” in line 43 and insert—" ““(1)   Section 99ZC(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (driver training courses: supplementary) is amended as follows. (2)   In paragraphs (b) and (c), after ““courses”” insert ““or giving instruction on such courses””. (3)   After paragraph (e) insert ““and (f)   provision authorising the Secretary of State to make available information about persons providing driver training courses or giving instruction on such”” The noble Baroness said: Section 99ZC(1)(b) and (c) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 provide for the approval of persons providing compulsory driver training courses, their training, supervision and so forth. Doubts have recently emerged about whether the existing wording clearly indicates that the provisions cover both training-course providers and individual instructors. Amendment No. 121 seeks to remove any ambiguity. It also enables the Secretary of State to make available information about persons providing driver training courses or those giving instruction on such. It is one of a number of provisions that seek to implement the concept of the informed consumer, which is central to the Government’s Road Safety Strategy. Section 99ZC(1)(e) provides that regulations under Section 99ZA may include provision for the evidencing of the successful completion of compulsory driver training courses. Sections 99ZA, 99ZB and 99ZC were inserted by the Transport Act 2000, but at the time consequential amendments were not made to Section 173(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, which relates to the forgery of documents, or to Section 174(1) of that Act, which relates to false statements. Amendment No. 122 remedies those earlier omissions by amending Sections 173 and 174 accordingly. I ask the Committee to agree to the amendments, and beg to move.