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A.D. 1952 providing facilities for transport", and there shall be added to the paragraphs of that subsection setting out the particular matters to which the licensing authority is to have regard the following paragraph-
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(f) to the extent to which the vehicles to be authorised 5 will further the provision of services under which goods will be carried partly by road and partly by rail without the need for unloading and reloading."
(2) Where, under subsection (2) of section eleven of the said Act, the licensing authority takes into consideration any objection 10 to an application for the grant or variation of a licence-
(a) the onus of proof that there are such grounds for the objection as are specified in that subsection shall lie on the objector; and
(b) existing transport facilities shall be deemed for the pur- 15
poses of that subsection to be suitable if, and only if, having regard to the efficiency, reliability and ade- quacy thereof, the charges made in respect thereof and any other relevant considerations, they are considered by the licensing authority to use as good as or better 20 than those which the applicant will provide if his application is granted.
(3) There shall be included among the grounds on which an A licence or a B licence may be suspended or revoked under subsection (1) of section thirteen of the Road and Rail Traffic 25 Act, 1933 or a direction may be given under subsection (3) of that section, the following additional ground, that is to say, that the holder of the licence made or procured to be made for the purposes of his application for the licence or of an applica- tion for any such variation thereof as is mentioned in sub- 30 section (3) of section eleven of that Act, any statement of fact which (whether to his knowledge or not) was false or any state- ment of intention or expectation which has not been fulfilled.
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The proviso to subsection (1) of the said section thirteen (which imposes certain conditions on the powers of the licensing 35 authority to revoke or suspend a licence) shali not apply to any revocation, suspension or direction made or given by virtue of this subsection, but, if the holder of the licence requests the licensing authority to hold a public enquiry, the licensing autho- rity shall not make or give any such revocation, suspension or 40 direction except after holding such an enquiry.
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9. (1) The power of the Minister under section twenty-five of provisions as the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, to make regulations for the to preceding purpose of carrying Part I of that Act into effect shall extend
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