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15 & 16 GEO. 6

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& 1 ELIZ. 2

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effect the preceding provisions of this Act, including the provi- A.D. 1952 sions of the First Schedule to this Act, and accordingly references in that section to Part I of that Act shall be construed as including references to the said provisions; and without 5 prejudice to the generality of this provision, such regulations may make provision as to the means by which vehicles to which any of the said provisions of this Act apply are to be identified. whether by plates, marks or otherwise.

(2) The Commission shall furnish to the Board from time 10 to time such reports and information as may in the opinion of the Commission be of assistance to the Board in the discharge of their functions or as the Board may require them to furnish to the Board for that purpose.

(3) If it appears to the Minister that, having regard to the stage 15 reached in the disposal of the property held by the Commission for the purposes of the existing road haulage undertaking, it is expedient so to do, he may by order provide for abolishing the Board and winding up their affairs, and for transferring to the Minister any functions of the Board so far as they remain to be 20 exercised or performed.

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The power conferred by this subsection to make orders shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and any such statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

The Transport Levy and the Transport Fund

10. (1) In the case of the vehicles described in the first The transport column of the Tables in Parts I and III of the Second Schedule levy. to this Act, being vehicles which are used on public roads in Great Britain on or after the appointed day, a charge, in this 30 Act referred to as "the transport levy ", shall be made in accord- ance with the subsequent provisions of this section for the benefit of the Transport Fund established under the next following

section.

(2) The transport levy shall be charged for the periods 35 covered by the licences taken out in respect of the vehicle in question under the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, and the amount 'charged by way of the levy for any such period shall be the amount by which the excise duty payable upon that licence would be increased if the annual amount of that duty were 40 increased by the amount arrived at by multiplying the unit charge, as defined in subsection (3) of this section, by the appro- priate multiplier, as defined in subsection (4) thereof..

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(3) The amount referred to in this section as "the unit charge shall-

(a) until the end of the year nineteen hundred and fifty-five,

be thirteen shillings and sixpence ;

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