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Public Bus Services Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
possession it first came and the ultimate disposal of the property under these regulations and such record shall, at all reasonable times, be available for inspection by any police officer.
18. Safe keeping of property
(1) A grantee shall retain in safe keeping any property which comes into its possession in accordance with regulation 16 until claimed by the owner thereof or disposed of in accordance with these regulations.
(2) A grantee shall return forthwith all official documents, including licences, passports and identity cards, to the appropriate Government Department or other body or person by whom they were issued.
(3) Where the name and address of the owner of any property, other than a document referred to in subregulation (2) are readily ascertainable, the grantee shall forthwith notify him that the property is in its possession and may be claimed in accordance with these regulations.
(4) If any property appears to the grantee to be of a perishable or offensive nature and is not claimed and proved to its satisfaction to belong to a claimant within 8 hours of the time of finding or if it becomes objectionable, the grantee may thereupon destroy or otherwise dispose of the property as it thinks fit and, if the property is sold, the grantee shall reward the conductor or driver in the manner provided in regulation 19.
19. Unclaimed property
If any property retained by a grantee is not proved to its satisfaction to belong to a claimant within 3 months of the date when the property was handed over to it by a conductor or driver, the property shall thereupon vest in the grantee and the grantee may either deliver the property to the conductor or driver or without delay sell the property and in respect of any article which realizes a sum in excess of $2 shall award to the conductor or driver one-fifth, up to an amount not exceeding $25, of the proceeds of such sale, and in computing the amount due to the conductor or driver any part of 10 cents shall be reckoned as 10 cents:
Provided that any document not returned to the owner or other appropriate person under regulation 18(3) and which has not been claimed by the person entitled to its return before the expiration of such period of 3 months shall not be delivered to the conductor or driver or sold but shall be dealt with in such manner as the grantee may deem appropriate.
20. Claimed property
(1) If any property retained by a grantee under regulation 18 is claimed within 3 months of the date on which it was handed over to the grantee by the
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