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A.D. 1952

Transport

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(b) for each period of three years following the end of that year, be such sum as may be fixed in relation to that period by an order of the Minister made before the beginning of that period or, if no sum is so fixed, the sum which was the unit charge immediately before the 5 beginning of that period,

and the Minister shall exercise his powers under this subsection in respect of each period with a view to securing that, as nearly as conveniently may be, the said Transport Fund will, over that period, be sufficient and not more than sufficient to meet the 10 payments falling to be made therefrom.

The power conferred on the Minister by this subsection to make orders shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and no order shall be made by the Minister under this subsection unless a draft thereof has been laid before Parliament and has been 15 approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(4) The number referred to in this section as "the appropriate multiplier" is the number arrived at under the second column of the Table in Part I, or, as the case may be, the fourth and fifth columns of the Table in Part III, of the Second Schedule to 20 this Act by reference to the weight unladen of the vehicle, plus, in the case of a vehicle of the description specified in the first column of the Table in Part I of that Schedule which is used for drawing a trailer, that one of the numbers in the third column of the Table in Part II of that Schedule which is appro- 25 priate having regard to the weight unladen of that vehicle.

(5) Sections eight, nine, eleven to fifteen and twenty-one to twenty-five of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949 (which contain provisions as to the collection of the excise duties under that Act and as to other connected matters) shall have effect as if 30 the transport levy payable in the case of a vehicle for any period were part of the duty payable under that Act in respect of that vehicle for that period and as if, where a licence is in force on the appointed day with respect to a vehicle chargeable with the levy, the use of the vehicle on a public road in Great Britain 35 on or after the appointed day and before the end of the period ⠀⠀ covered by the licence were, within the meaning of subsection (1) of section thirteen of that Act, a use thereof for a purpose bringing it within a class or description of vehicle to which a higher rate of duty (that is to say, the rate arrived at by 40 increasing the annual amount of the duty by the product of the unit charge and the appropriate multiplier) was applicable under that Act:

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(a) the transport levy paid to a council in respect-of any 45

vehicle shall be paid by it to the Minister instead of of being paid into the Exchequer and

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