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Transport

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15 & 16 GEO. 6

& 1 ELIZ. 2

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A.D. 1952

Provided that-

(a) any passenger road transport service which is being pro- vided by the Commission at the passing of this Act shall, for one month from the passing thereof, and, if within that month an application for the necessary 5 road service licence is duly made to the licensing authority for public service vehicles, until that appli- cation is determined by the licensing authority, be exempt from the operation of the preceding provisions of this subsection;

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(b) any enactment in force at the end of the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven which authorised any of the bodies mentioned in the Third Schedule to the Trans- port Act, 1947, to construct and maintain shelters, buildings or barriers shall have the same effect in 15 relation to the Commission as it would have if sub- section (4) of the said section sixty-five had not been enacted.

(3) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, it shall not be lawful for the Commission to run any public 20 service vehicle as a contract carriage.

(4) The following provisions (being an adaptation of pro- visions contained in section fifteen of the London Passenger Transport Act, 1933, which, until the coming into force of the Transport Act, 1947, applied to the London Passenger Transport 25 Board) shall apply to the Commission—

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(a) it shall be lawful for the Commission to run any public service vehicle as a contract carriage on roads within the London Passenger Transport Area and roads out- side that area within a radius of ten miles, or, in the 30 County of Kent, five miles, from any point on the boundary of that area;

(b) sections seventy-two to seventy-six of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, shall not apply to a road service provided by the Commission wholly within the London special 35 area, and, in the case of a road service provided by the Commission partly within and partly without the London special area, shall not apply to that service in so far as it is within the London special area;

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(c) the licensing authority for public service vehicles, in 40

considering whether they will grant or back a road service licence to the Commission in respect of any route or part of a route which is outside the London special area, shall, in addition to the matters to which they are required to have regard by virtue of section 45

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