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Applica- tion.

Issue.

Form of trade licence

and trade plates.

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(2) No person shail use or permit to be used any private car or private omnibus for the purposes of hire.

(3) In any proceedings under this regulation--

(@) production of a copy of the register certified by the officer entrusted with the custody thereof to be a true copy will be prima facie evidence of the purpose for which a vehicle has been licensed;

(b) the onus shall be upon the registered owner to satisfy the court or magistrate that he was not aware and had no reasonable grounds for believing that his vehicle was being used for a purpose for which it was not licensed; (c) the onus shall be upon the driver and any other defendant to satisfy the court or magistrate that he was not aware and had no reasonable grounds for believing that the vehicle was not licensed for the purpose for which it was being used or was intended to be used.

PART II.

Trade Licences,

27. If any person being a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in motor vehicles wishes to obtain a trade licence in respect of all motor vehicles used by him he shall deliver to the Com- missioner an application for a trade licence in such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner and shall pay to the Commissioner a fee of one hundred and eighty dollars and shall deposit with the Commissioner the sum of one hundred dollars.

28. The Commissioner on being satisfied that the applicant is a bona fide manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in motor vehicles may issue to the applicant a trade licence in accordance with the application together with a set of trade plates with a weather-proof holder for the trade licence attached to one plate,

29. (1) Each trade licence shall contain-

(4) the name and address of the person to whom the licence

was issued;

(b) the number of the trade plate allotted in respect of such

trade licence ;

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(c) the date of expiry of the licence which shall be one year

from the date of granting of the licence;

(d) the serial number of the licence.

(2) Each trade plate shall display the letter "T" together with such number or letters and number allocated in respect thereof in red on a white background in such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner. A set of trade plates shall remain the property of the Commissioner and shall not be altered in any way after issue and shall be returned forthwith to the Commissioner whenever the trade licence in respect of which it was issued is cancelled suspended or is not renewed, and upon return of a set of trade plates to him the Commissioner shall repay the deposit made in respect thereof less such amount as the Commissioner shall con- sider necessary to make good any damage to such plates.

30. The trade plate with the trade licence attached thereto Position shall be fixed in front and the other trade plate at the back of the of trade

plates and motor vehicle upon which they may be in use in the manner licence. prescribed by these regulations with respect to the registration mark assigned to motor vehicles under these regulations and shall be carried at all times when the motor vehicle is in use under a trade licence.

31. A trade licence shall not be used by any person other Trade than the person to whom the same is issued and the person to whom licence not

transfer. a trade licence is issued shall not allow or suffer the trade licence able. or the trade plates issued in connexion therewith to be used by any other person but no offence under this regulation shall be deemed to have been committed if the person to whom the trade licenco is issued or a person bona fide in his employ and acting under his authority is present and in charge of the motor vehicle or if such motor vehicle is constructed for use by one person only and is being used by a prospective purchaser for the purpose of test or trial.

use.

32. (1) A trade licence shall not be used upon any motor Limita- vehicle other than a motor vehicle which is in the possession of tions of the holder of such trade licence in the course of his business as a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in motor vehicles.