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A.D.. 1952

Trade

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harbours

and port facilities.

Amendments

as to charges schemes.

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Transport

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(b) the Commission shall not, without the consent of the Minister, acquire any securities the acquisition of which would bring under the direct or indirect control of the Commission a body corporate which is carrying on or is about to carry on an undertaking the activities of 5 which consist wholly or mainly in the provision of passenger road transport services.

(6) The Commission shall not cause or permit the voluntary liquidation of any body corporate directly or indirectly under their control which is carrying on an undertaking the activities 10 whereof consist wholly or mainly in the provision of passenger road transport services.

(7) Passenger road transport services provided by any body corporate which is directly or indirectly controlled by the Com- mission shall be deemed for the purposes of section six of the 15 Transport Act, 1947 (which relates to Consultative Committees) to be provided by the Commission.

18.-(1) Sections sixty-six to sixty-eight of the Transport Act, 1947 (which relate to schemes as to trade harbours) are hereby repealed.

(2) The Commission shall not, after the passing of this Act, provide port facilities in any place in which they were not providing port facilities on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

Charges

19.--(1) The charges made by the Commission which are to be determined by or under charges schemes under Part V of the Transport Act. 1947. shall be the following and no other charges, that is to say—

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(a) charges for the carriage of goods or passengers by rail- 30

way or inland waterway, including collection and delivery charges;

(b) charges (including wharfage charges) for the use of

inland waterways;

(c) dock charges;

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(d) charges for the carriage of passengers by road in public service vehicles running wholly or partly within the London special area, not being contract carriages; and (e) such other charges, if any, as, by reason of their con-

nection with any of the charges aforesaid, it is neces- 40 sary or expedient should be dealt with by a charges scheme,

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and, without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provi- sions of this sub-section, the duty imposed by section seventy-six

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