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Transport
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DRAFT
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Require the British Transport Commission to dispose of A.D. 1952
the property held by them for the purposes of the part of their undertaking which is carried on through the Road Haulage Executive; to amend the law relating to the carriage of goods by road and to provide for a levy, for the benefit of the said Commission and for other purposes, on motor vehicles used on roads ; to provide for the re- organisation of the railways operated by the said Commission and to amend the law relating to the powers, duties and composition of the said Commis- sion; to repeal certain provisions of the Transport Act, 1947, and to amend other provisions thereof; to amend section six of the Cheap Trains Act, 1883; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
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E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
to as
Carriage of Goods by Road
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, it shall be the Disposal of duty of the British Transport Commission (in this Act referred Commission's
the Commission"), to dispose, às quickly as is reason- existing
road haulage ably practicable, of all the property held by them for the pur- undertaking. 10 poses of so much of their undertaking as is at the passing of
this Act carried on through the Road Haulage Executive,
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The part of the undertaking of the Commission referred to in this subsection is hereafter in this Act referred to as "the existing road haulage undertaking
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