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(4) The following provisions (being an adaptation of pro- visions contained in section fifteen of the London Passenger Transport Act, 1933, which, until the coming into force of the Transport Act, 1947, applied to the London Passenger Transport 5 Board) shall apply to the Commission-

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(a) it shall be lawful for the Commission to run any public

service vehicle as a contract carriage on—

(i) roads within the London Passenger Transport Area:

(ii) roads outside that area within a radius of ten miles, or, in the County of Kent, five miles, from any point on the boundary of that area;

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(b) sections seventy-two to seventy-six of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, shall not apply to a road service provided by the Commission wholly within the London special area, and, in the case of a road service provided by the Commission partly within and partly without the London special area, shall not apply to that service in so far as it is within the London special area; (c) the licensing authority for public service vehicles, in considering whether they will grant or back a road service licence to the Commission in respect of any route or part of a route which is outside the London special area, shall, in addition to the matters to which they are required to have regard by virtue of section seventy-two of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, have regard to the duty of the Commission to provide or secure the provision of an adequate and properly co-ordinated system of passenger transport for the London Passenger Transport Area,

and for the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that sub- section (2) of section twenty-six of the London Passenger Trans- port Act, 1933 (which relates to charges and fares), has effect, in the case of a public service vehicle operating wholly or in 35 part outside the London special area, subject, as respects any part of the service outside that area, to the provisions of section. seventy-two of the Road Traffic Act, 1930.

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(5) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section two of the Transport Act, 1947,—

(a) the Commission shall not have power to acquire (whether absolutely or for any period) the whole or any part of any undertaking of any other person if the activities of that undertaking, or that part thereof, as the case may be, consist wholly or mainly in the pro- vision of passenger road transport services;

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