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15 & 16 GEO. 6

& 1 ELIZ. 2

Transport

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(c) to provide, in such places and to such extent as may appear to the Commission to be expedient, other transport services and facilities for traffic on inland waterways; and

(d) in places in which they were providing port facilities on the first day of July, ninteen hundred and fifty-two, to provide port facilities,

due regard being had, as respects all the services and facilities mentioned in this subsection, to efficiency, economy and safety of operation and to the needs of the public, agriculture, commerce and industry."

(2) The following provisions shall have effect as respects the membership of the Commission-

(a) the maximum number of members of the Commission other than the chairman shall, instead of being eight, be ten;

(b) so much of subsection (2) of section one of the Trans- port Act, 1947, as requires not less than four members other than the chairman to render whole-time service to the Commission is hereby repealed and accordingly only the chairman and such other members, if any, as the Minister thinks fit, shall be required to render whole-time service to the Commission;

(c) in exercising the powers exercisable by him under or by virtue of the said section one, the Minister shall have regard to the desirability of securing that the members of the Commission include-

(i) persons who between them have had experi- ence in the management of railways and road transport; and

(ii) a person who has had experience in the organisation of workers; and

(iii) persons who, otherwise than by virtue of such experience as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, may between them be expected to be conversant with the requirements, as respects transport, of agriculture, commerce and industry.

(3) For subsection (1) of section four of the Transport Act, 1947 (which enables the Minister to give directions to the Com- 40 mission in certain circumstances), there shall be substituted the

following subsection--

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"(1) Subject to the provisions of this subsection, the Minister may, after consultation with the Commission, give to the Commission all such directions as to the exercise and performance by the Commission of their functions

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So