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Transport

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15 & 16 GEÒ. 6

& 1 ELIZ. 2.

A.D, 1952 existing road haulage undertaking, requiring them to dispose of that property otherwise than as or as part of a transport unit, and the Commission shall comply with any such directions.

Commission's vehicles to

require licences but to be free from

twenty-five mile limit.

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(3) If it appears to the Commission as respects any property held by them for the purposes of the existing road haulage under- taking that the retention thereof by them for use for the pur- poses of some other part of their undertaking (being a part the operations of which do not consist wholly or mainly in the carriage of goods by road for hire or reward) is necessary in order to avoid prejudice to the efficient carrying on thereof, 10 they may, with the consent of the Minister, retain that property for such use as aforesaid instead of disposing of it.

(4) Save as provided by the preceding provisions of this sec- tion, the Commission shall not dispose of any property held by them for the purposes of the existing road haulage undertaking 15 otherwise than as or as part of a transport unit:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall prevent the Commission consuming or discarding any such property in the ordinary course of the carrying on of the existing road haulage undertaking.

6.-(1) Section fifty-nine of the Transport Act, 1947 (which provides that no licence is required for goods vehicles used by the Commission), shall cease to have effect.

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(2) As respects goods vehicles which at the passing of this Act belonged to the Commission or were in the possession of the

25 Commission under an agreement for hire or loan, the repeal of the said section shall not take effect until three months from the passing of this Act and, if before the expiration of the said three months an application is made for a licence authorising the use of any of those vehicles, that repeal shall not take effect 30 as respects those vehicles until the application is determined by the licensing authority.

(3) If any vehicle as respects which the said section fifty-nine is still in force is destroyed or damaged beyond repair, the Com- mission may substitute for that vehicle-

(a) if the vehicle is a motor vehicle, another motor vehicle

of the same or less weight unladen ;

(b) if the vehicle is a trailer, another trailer,

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and thereafter the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if the substituted vehicle had, and the original vehicle 40 had not, belonged to the Commission or, as the case may be, been in the possession of the Commission under an agreement for hire or loan at the passing of this Act.

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