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quotation of ils shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is due to the failure or neglect of the Company, the Governor in Council may revoke the grant and such revocation shall deem to have been by reason of non-compliance on the part of the Company with the provi- sions of this Ordinance.
(3) The provisions of subsection (2) shall apply if, during the term of the grant or any extension thereof, the shares of the Company cease to be listed or quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
11. (1) The Company shall provide and maintain throughout the Lerro of the grant and any extension thereof to the satisfaction of the Authority adequate and efficient services of public passenger transport vehicles for the transport of passengers on roads in Kowloon and the mainland portion of the New Territories (excluding the islands adjacent thereto) in return for payment on a per seat basis.
(2) The services shall be provided and maintained on the routes specified from time to time in the Schedule of Services at fares not exceeding the fares specified therein, and according to the time-tables set forth therein and by the use of vehicles of such types and capable of lawfully carrying not less than the number of passengers as are specified therein.
(3) Subject to the provisions of any other enactment the Company shall permit a passenger on a public omnibus or a public car on a route listed in the Schedule of Services for the carriage of goods to carry baggage or packages not exceeding a total weight of one hundred pounds, so long as no item of baggage or package exceeds öfty pounds in weight or five and two fifths cubic feet in size, together with a bamboo or wooden pole not exceeding two and a half inches in diameter and five feet in length, if such baggage or packages can be safely and conveniently carried on the vehicle.
(4) The Company shall not charge any person a fare greater than the appropriate fare specified in the Schedule of Services or a baggage charge for any baggage or packages carried, greater than the appropriate charge specified in the Schedule of Services.
(5) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Company from pro- viding a supplementary service of public omnibuses and public cars in addition to the service specified in the Schedule of Services, on any route or on any part of a route if the service specified in the Schedule of Services is inadequate to meet the demands therefor and the Company, if required by the Authority to do so, shall provide such supplementary service.
12. (1) A Schedule of Services which has been agreed between the Authority and the Company and a copy of which, signed by or on behalf of the Authority and the Company has been deposited with the Colonial Secretary shall be the Schedule of Services for the purpose of
the Ordinance, subject to amendment in accordance with the provisions of section 13.
(2) A copy of such Schedule of Services shall be published in the Gazette as soon as is practicable after the coming into operation of this Ordinance.
13. (1) The Authority, at the request of or after consultation with Amendment the Company, may at any time amend the Schedule of Services and of Schedule of Services. shall publish in the Gazette notice of such amendment.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 14 und 15, an amendment made in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) shall take effect on such date as is provided in the notice, which date shall be not less than twenty eight days after the date of publication in the Gazelle
(3) Nothing in this section shall empower the Authority-
(a) to require the Company to commence and maintain a service on any route not specified in the Schedule of Services or to decrease the fares payable on any route specified in the Schedule of Services without the prior agreement of the Company; or
(b) to increase the fares payable on any route specified in the
Schedule of Services.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Company, with the consent of the Authority, from commencing and continuing any ad- ditional service for a period not exceeding three months notwithstanding that such service shall not have been included in the Schedule of Services.
14. (1) If any two hundred and fifty or more persons who are rate Appeal by payers resident in the Colony are of the opinion that-
(a) the Company has failed and is failing to muintain the service or any part thereof in accordance with the provisions of section 11: or
(6) any amendment to the Schedule of Services provided by a notice published in accordance with the provisions of sub- section (1) of section 13 is unreasonable,
such persons may appeal collectively by petition to the Governor in Council.
(2) No such petition shall be considered by the Governor in Council unless a copy thereof shall have been served on the Company not less than fourteen days before the date of consideration by the Governor in Council and before coming to any decision in respect of any such petition the Governor in Council shall receive and consider any representation in writing thereon received from the Company.
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