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(4) Section fifty-two of the Transport Act, 1947 (which pro- A.D. 1952 vides for restricting the use of goods vehicles more than twenty- five miles from their operating centres), shall not apply to the use of vehicles by the Commission.

5 (5) The provisions of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of giving to the Commission the rights specified in those provisions of obtaining free of charge, for the five year period therein referred to, authorisations under A licences or C licences to use the goods vehicles specified in 10 those provisions.

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(6) Vehicles specified in licences which are being used by the Commission shall-

(a) for the purpose of any wages regulation order in force under the Wages Councils Act, 1945, at the passing of this Act; and

(b) for the purpose of determining the workers in rela- tion to whom the Road Haulage Wages Council re- ferred to in section one of the Wages Councils Act. 1948, operates; and

(c) for the purposes of Part II of the Road Haulage Wages

Act, 1938,

be deemed to be vehicles not so specified.

of provisions

7.-(1) As from the appointed day, section fifty-two of the Repeal, as from Transport Act, 1947 (which provides for restricting the use of appointed day, 25 goods vehicles more than twenty-five miles from their operating relating to centres), any such condition in a licence as is provided for by twenty-five the said section fifty-two, and sections fifty-three and fifty-six, mile limit. subsection (2) of section fifty-seven, section fifty-eight, subsections (1) and (3) to (6) of section sixty, and sections sixty-one and sixty- 30 two of the said Act (which contain various provisions supple- mentary or incidental to the said section fifty-two) shall cease to have effect.

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(2) The appointed day under subsection (1) of this section-

(a) shall be a date not later than six months from the date of the making of the order of the Minister appointing it; and

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(b) shall be a date not earlier than that by which, in the opinion of the Minister at the date of the making of the order, so much of the property held for the pur- poses of the existing road haulage undertaking as it is reasonably practicable to dispose of by the sale of transport units will have been disposed of.

(3) Pending the coming into operation of subsection (1) of this section, subsections (5) and (6) of section fifty-three of the Trans- 45 port Act, 1947 (which empower the Commission to revoke

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