CAB129-53 — Page 43

A.D. 1952

Repeals and amendments relating to the Commission's functions with

passenger transport.

Transport

Page 43.6

& 1 ELIZ. 2

(4) The power conferred by this section on the Minister 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.

(5) Before exercising his powers under this section in any case 5 affecting Scotland, the Minister shall consult the Secretary of State for Scotland.

Road passenger transport, trade harbours and port facilities

17.-(1) Sections sixty-three and sixty-four of the Transport Act, 1947 (which relate to area schemes as to passenger road 10 transport services), are hereby repealed.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, respect to road sections seventy-two to seventy-six of the Road Traffic Act, 1930 (which relate to road service licences), shall apply to passenger road transport services provided by the Commission as they 15 apply to passenger road transport services provided by other persons, and subsections (1), (3) and (4) of section sixty-five of the Transport Act, 1947 (which exempts services of the Com- mission from the said sections seventy-two to seventy-six and imposes and confers on the Commission certain functions in 20 respect of road passenger transport services provided by them) shall cease to have effect:

LA

Provided that

(a) any passenger road transport service which is being pro-

vided by the Commission at the passing of this Act 25 shall, for one month from the passing thereof, and, if within that month an application for the necessary road service licence is duly made to the licensing authority for public service vehicles, until that appli- cation is determined by the licensing authority, be exempt from the operation of the preceding provisions. of this subsection;

30

(b) any enactment in force at the end of the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven which authorised any of the bodies mentioned in the Third Schedule to the Trans- 35 port Act, 1947, to construct and maintain shelters, buildings or barriers shall have the same effect in relation to the Commission as it would have if sub- section (4) of the said section sixty-five had not been enacted.

(3) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, it shall not be lawful for the Commission to run any public service vehicle as a contract carriage.

40

Page 43

Page 43

43