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(b) the power conferred by the said section twenty-five to make regulations for the purpose of carrying that Act into effect shall include power to make regulations for the purpose of carrying this section into effect.

(6) In the case of each Government Department other than the Admiralty, the War Department and the Air Ministry, there shall be paid to the Minister for each year out of moneys pro- vided by Parliament such sum, if any, as the Minister may estimate to be the total amount, or, as the case may be, the 10 total additional amount, which would have been payable by way of the transport levy in respect of vehicles used for the purposes of that Department in that year if the excise duties under the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, had been chargeable in respect of Crown vehicles.

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In this subsection "Government Department " means a Department or body the salaries or expenses of which are the subject of a payment from moneys provided by Parliament, nõt being a payment by way of grant in aid.

(7) In this section, " public road "has the same meaning as 20 in the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, and subsections (4) and (5) of section five of that Act (which relate to super-imposed vehicles and the meaning of the word "trailer ") and section twenty-six of that Act (which relates to the computation of the unladen weight of vehicles and other matters) shall apply for the deter- 25 mination of the transport levy payable in respect of a vehicle as they apply for the determination of the excise duty payable in respect thereof.

A.D. 1952

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11. (1) There shall be established a fund under the control Establishment and management of the Minister, to be known as "the Transport of Transport 30 Fund," into which all sums paid to the Minister under the last preceding section either by councils or out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be paid, and out of which there shall be made the payments provided for by the other provisions of this Act (and in particular by the two next following sections) and 35 payments to the Commission equal to so much of the payments falling to be made by the Commission under the provisions of this Act relating to compensation to officers and servants as is ascribable to the duties imposed by this Act on the Commission as to the disposal of the property held by the Commission for 40 the purposes of the existing road haulage undertaking.

(2) If it appears to the Minister that the Transport Fund will be insufficient for the time being to meet the payments falling to be made therefrom, he may, within the period of twelve months following the passing of this Act, pay into the Fund, out 45 of moneys provided by Parliament, sums not exceeding in all fifty thousand pounds, but sums equal to the sums so paid into

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