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(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.

A.D. 1952

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, 10 goods vehicles more than twenty-five miles from their operating of provisions

relating to centres), and sections fifty-three and fifty-six, subsection (2) of twenty-five section fifty-seven, section fifty-eight, subsections (1) and (3) to mile limit. (6) of section sixty, and sections sixty-one and sixty-two of the said Act (which contain various provisions supplementary or 15 incidental to the said section fifty-two) shall cease to have effect.

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

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(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

(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- port Act, 1947 (which empower the Commission to revoke original permits granted to existing undertakings for the use of 30 goods vehicles more than twenty-five miles from their operating centres, and to substitute other permits therefor) shall not have effect, but without prejudice to the operation of subsections (3) and (4) of that section in relation to any substituted permits (within the meaning of that section) granted before the passing 35 of this Act.

&(1) In subsection (2) of section six of the Road and Amendments Rail Traffic Act, 1933 (which specifies certain matters to which as to grounds licensing authorities are to have regard in exercising their dis- for granting or

refusing cretion to grant or refuse applications for licences), for the words licences. 40 "shall have regard primarily to the interests of the public generally, including those of persons requiring, as well as of those of persons providing, facilities for transport" there shall be substituted the words shall have regard to the interests of the public generally, including primarily those of persons re- 45 quiring facilities for transport and secondarily those of persons

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