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A.D. 1952
Trade harbours and port facilities.
Amendments
as to charges schemes.
Transport
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15 & 16 GEO. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2
(8) Passenger road transport services provided by any body corporate which is directly or indirectly controlled by the Com- mission shall be deemed for the purposes of section six of the Transport Act, 1947 (which relates to Consultative Committees), to be provided by the Commission.
18.-(1) Sections sixty-six to sixty-eight of the Transport Act, 1947 (which relate to schemes as to trade harbours), are hereby repealed.
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(2) The Commission shall not, after the passing of this Act, provide port facilities in any place in which they were not 10 providing port facilities on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.
Charges
19.—(1) The charges made by the Commission which are to be determined by or under charges schemes under Part V 15 of the Transport Act. 1947, shall be the following and no other charges, that is to say-
(a) charges for the carriage of goods or passengers by rail-
way or inland waterway;
(b) charges (including wharfage charges) for the use of 20
inland waterways;
(c) dock charges;
(d) charges for the carriage of passengers by road on routes wholly or partly within the London special area, not being carriage in contract carriages; and
(e) such other charges, if any, as, by reason of their con- nection with any of the charges aforesaid, should in the opinion of the Commission be dealt with by a charges scheme,
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and, without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provi- 30 sions of this sub-section, the duty imposed by section seventy-six of that Act on the Commission to prepare and submit drafts of charges schemes shall be limited accordingly:
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Provided that no fares for any service or part of a service which is the subject of a road service licence shall be made the subject of any charges scheme after the passing of this Act and any fares which are the subject of a charges scheme in force at the passing of this Act shall cease to be subject thereto on the service or part of a service to which they relate becoming the subject of a road service licence.
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(2) Any charges scheme submitted after the passing of this Act (including any such scheme revoking or amending a previous scheme) shall, as respects the services and facilities
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