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A.D. 1952

Commission's vehicles to

Transport

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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, or shall affect the provisions of the last preceding section.

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

but to be free from twenty-five mile limit.

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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 10 Commission under an agreement for hire or loan, the repeal of the said section shall not take effect until three months from the passing thereof 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 15 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, and thereafter the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if the substituted vehicle had, and the original vehicle 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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(4) Section fifty-two of the Transport Act, 1947 (which pro- vides for restricting the use of goods vehicles more than twenty- 30 five miles from their operating centres) shall not apply to the use of vehicles by the Commission.

(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 a period of five years from the passing of this Act, authorisa- tions under A licences or C licences to use the goods vehicles specified in those provisions.

(6) The vehicles of the Commission specified in licences 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

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