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4A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner shall, on application by the registered owner, reregister as a laxi a motor vehicle which immediately prior thereto was registered as a public car.
(2) A premium of $75,000 shall be payable in respect of the registration of such motor vehicle as a taxi, and the Commissioner shall not register such vehicle as a taxi unleu a first instalment of $50,000 has been paid
(3) The second instalment of $25,000 shall be payable not later than 12 month after the registration of such vehicle as a taxi, and until Instalment is paid the Commis sioner shall refuse to issue a further vehicle licence in respect of that vehicle as a taxi.
(4) The premium payable under this section shall be in addition to the registration and licence fee payable under the regulations and may not be refunded,
(5) With effect from the expiry of the vehicle licence in force at the commencement of this section in respect of & motor vehicle registered as a public car, the registration of that vehicle as a public car shall cease to have effect".
Part IVA of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
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"PART IVA
TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL
26A. (1) There shall be a panel from which member of Transport Tribunals, other than public officers, may be appointed under this Ordinance.
(2) The panel shall consist of such persons, not being public officers, as the Chief Secretary may appoint,
(3) The appointment of any person as a member of the panel shall have effect for not more than 3 year and a member of the panel shall be eligible for re-appointmeat (4) A member of the panel may resign at any time by notice in writing to the Chief Secretary.
26B. (1) The chairman of a Transport Tribunal may by notice in writing summon any person to appear before the Tribunal to produce any document or to give evidence. (3) A Transport Tribunal may receive such evidence as it thinks fit, and neither the provisions of the Evidens Ordinance nor any other rule of law relating to the ad- missibility of evidence shall apply in the proceedings before the Tribunal,
(3) Any question arising in proceedings before Transport Tribunal, not being a question relating to the practice and procedure of the Tribunal, sħall, in the event of a difference between the members, be decided by the majority.
(4) Any person who being summoned to appear before a Transport Tribunal, refuses or tails without reasonable
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excuse to appear or to answer any question put to him by or with the consent of the Tribunal commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500 and to im- prisonment for 3 months:
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate himself and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Tribunal be entitled to the privileges to which he would be entitled if giving evidence before a court of justice.
(5) Any person who behaves in an insulting manner or uses any threatening or insulting expression to or in the presence of a Transport Tribunal commits an offence and is table on summary conviction to a fine of $500 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
260. (1) Save in so far as provision is made therefor in this Ordinance, the practice and procedure in and In connexion with atty hearing before a Transport Tribunal shall be such as the chairman of the Tribunal may deter- mice,
(2) In proceedings before a Transport Tribunal, any person may appear in person or be represented by counsel, solicitor or agent".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after Part IVA. Addition of
new Part IVE the following new Part-
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"PART TVB
SUSPENSION OF LICENCES OF MOTOR VEHICLES
260. In this Part, unless the Context otherwise requires- "Commissioner" means the Commissioner For Transport
and any Assistant Corandissioner for Transport; "fixed penalty" means, in relation to an offence specified ia the First Schedule, the fixed penalty specified for that offence in the Schedule to the Fixed Penalty (Criminal Proceedings) Ordinance:
"panel" means the panel appointed under section 26A; "registered owner" means the person in whose name ย
motor vehicle is registered.
26E. (1) The Chief Secretary may appoint such Transport Tribunals as may from time to time be necessary for the purposes of this Part.
(2) Each such Transport Tribunal shall consist of the Commissioner as chairman and two members of the panel.
264. (1) Where the driver of a motor vehicle has been convicted of an offence specified in the First Schedule, or the fixed penalty for such an offence has been paid. The Commissioner shall, within 14 days after the date of the conviction or payment of the fixed penalty, cause a notice to be served on the registered owner of the motor vehicle.
(2) A notice under this section shall- (a) specify-
(i) the offence of which the driver of the motor vehicle was convicted or for which the fixed penalty