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& 1 ELIZ. 2

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(2) In the case of each such invitation, the properties which are to be the subject of the purchase, and the conditions of the purchase, shall be such as, in the opinion of the Commission, are calculated to enable a purchaser to engage without delay in 5 the carriage of goods by road for hire or reward, and the aggregate of the property, rights and obligations which a pur- chaser obtains or will obtain under a purchase resulting from such an invitation is hereafter in this Act referred to as a transport unit ".

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(3) In determining what are to be the transport units for which persons are invited to tender as aforesaid, the Commission shall have regard to the desirability of securing that persons desirous of entering or re-entering the road haulage industry have a reasonable opportunity of doing so notwithstanding that their 15 resources permit them to do so only if their operations are on a small scale, and, without prejudice to the generality of the fore- going provision but subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of this section, no transport unit shall, without the approval of the Minister, include more than fifty motor vehicles or motor 20 vehicles the aggregate weight of which unladen exceeds two

hundred tons.

Subject as aforesaid, the transport units shall be determined with a view to securing that the property held by the Commission for the purposes of the existing road haulage undertaking fetches 25 in the aggregate the best possible price.

(4) The provisions of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of this section, have effect for the purpose of giving to the purchaser of a transport unit and his successors in title the rights referred to 30 in those provisions of obtaining free of charge, for the five year period therein referred to authorisations under A licences to use the vehicles comprised in the unit, or other vehicles substituted therefor in accordance with the said provisions, without being subject to the condition provided for in section fifty-two of the 35 Transport Act, 1947 (namely that, except under or in accordance with a permit granted by the Commission, goods shall not be carried for hire or reward in any authorised vehicle if at any time while the goods are being so carried the vehicle is more than twenty-five miles from its operating centre).

40 (5) The vehicles included in a transport unit may include vehicles specified as additional vehicles, and the vehicles so specified shall-

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(a) be deemed for the purposes of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act not to be included in that trans- port unit, but without prejudice to the substitution thereof in accordance with the said Part I for other vehicles so included;

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