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(Cap. 112. 1956 Reprint).

General duties of operator.

Conductor's licenco.

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with the franchise and shall afford all such facilities for such inspection as may from time to time be required and shall permit such person lo make such extracts from the records as such person considers necessary,

(3) If the consideration for any franchise is a percentage of the takings or profits derived from the service, the operator, from time to time as required by the Financial Secretury, shall-

(a) deliver to the Financial Secretary accounts and balance sheets, audited and certified by an accountant approved by the Finaq- cial Secretary, showing such takings and profits; and

(b) give to the Financial Secretary and to every person authorized by the Financial Secretary for such purpose such form of authority as may be necessary to constitute the Financial Secretary and any such person an authorized representative of the operator within the meaning of subsection (1) of sec tion 4 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance for the purpose of that Ordinance.

PART III

Operators, drivers and conductors-General.

8. (1) Every operator shall ensure that every public omnibus and every public car used by him in fulfilling the terms of his franchise, at all times when so used-

(a) is kept in a clean and tidy condition;

(b) bas adequately displayed cards or posters showing the fares to be charged on the vehicle, the seating capacity of the vehicle and of each part thereof and the number of persons permitted to stand in the vehicle.

(2) Except with the previous permission in writing of the Authority, an operator shall not permit or suffer a public omnibus to be used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward unless there is carried on the public omnibus at all times when it is so used not less than one conductor.

9 (1) No person shall be employed and no operator shall employ any person as a conductor on a public omnibus unless the conductor is in possession of a valid licence as a conductor issued in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) Any person wishing to obtain the issue or renewal of a con- ductor's licence shall deliver to the Authority an application therefor in such form as shall be prescribed by the Authority, duly completed and signed by or on behalf of the applicant and countersigned by of on behalf of the operator by whom he is or wishes to be employed together with, in the case of an application for the issue of a conductor's

licence and, if required by the Authority, in the case of an application for the renewal of a conductor's licence, two copies of his photograph of a reasonable likeness to the satisfaction of the Authority and of a size not greater than two inches by two inches and not less than one and a half inches by one and a half inches together with a fee, for the issue of a licence, of two dollars and for the renewal of a licence, one dollar.

(3) If the Authority is satisfied with the particulars contained in any such application and that the applicant has such knowledge of the roads in that part of the Colony in which the public omnibus service is to operate as will enable him to carry out his duties as a conductor, the Authority may issue a conductor's licence valid until the next following 1st day of July, in such form as be shall prescribe. (4) If the holder of a conductor's licence satisfies the Authority that the conductor's licence has been lost or defaced, the Authority, on payment of a fee of one dollar shall issue to him a duplicate licence which shall have the same effect as the original licence.

(5) If after the issue of a duplicate licence in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4) and during the currency of such duplicate licence, the original licence shall be found, the person to whom the original licence was issued shall take all reasonable steps to obtain possession of it and to return it as soon as possible to the Authority. (6) A conductor's licence shall not be issued to any person under the age of eighteen years.

(7) The Authority may revoke a conductor's licence if the holder thereof has been convicted of an offence under these regulations or has ceased to be employed as a conductor and on the service of notice of such revocation by the Authority on the holder of the licence, the holder thereof shall surrender it to the Authority.

(8) A conductor shall carry his licence at all times when on duty.

(9) Any conductor's licence issued in accordance with the provi- sions of any enactment which is repealed by these regulations shall be deemed to have been issued in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

10. A driver and a conductor of a public omnibus and of a public General conduct. car when acting as such--

(a) shall behave in a civil and orderly manner;

(6) shall be clean and tidy in his person;

(r) shall not smoke in or on the vehicle during a journey or when

it has passengers on board;