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A.D. 1952 Amendments of Cheap Trains Act, 1883, s. 6.

Power of Commission to make general

increases of charges in advance of alteration of charges schemes.

Transport

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& 1 ELIZ. 2

20.-(1) The charges to be made in default of agreement between the Commission or railway company concerned and the Secretary of State, Admiralty or police authority for any conveyance provided in pursuance of section six of the Cheap Trains Act, 1883, shall be charges at such rates as may from time 5 to time be determined by the Transport Tribunal on the applica- tion of the Commission or railway company concerned or of the Secretary of State, Admiralty or police authority, and paragraphs (ii) to (v) of subsection (1) of that section (except so much of paragraph (iii) thereof as applies that section to wives, widows 10 and children) shall cease to have effect.

(2) Any increase in the sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament which is attributable to the amendments of the said section six effected by this section shall be paid out of moneys so provided.

(3) This section shall come into force on the appointed day.

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21.—(1) If it appears to the Commission that it is necessary to increase their charges in order to meet an increase in their costs which in their opinion will, unless met quickly, seriously affect their financial position, and that the necessary increase in 20 their revenue cannot reasonably be obtained without increasing some or all of their charges above the maximum charges fixed by a charges scheme as for the time being in force, they may increase-

(a) all their charges for the time being in force for the 25

carriage of goods by rail; or

(b) all their charges for the time being in force for the carriage of passengers by rail otherwise than on the railways operated through the London Transport Executive; or

(c) all their said charges for the carriage of goods by rail and all their said charges for the carriage of passengers by rail,

by a fixed percentage thereof respectively.

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The references in this subsection to charges for the carriage 35 of goods by rail—

(i) include references to collection and delivery charges and any other charges which, in the opinion of the Com- mission, ought to be treated for the purposes of this section as part of their charges for the carriage of goods 40 by rail; but

(ii) do not include references to agreed charges under section thirty-seven of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933 or charges fixed under that section by the Transport Tribunal,

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