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(2) At the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of the said section seventy-one there shall be added the words and

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(c) such number of persons representing the interests of carriers of goods by road for hire or reward as the Minister thinks fit, to be appointed by him after con- sultation with such body or bodies as he thinks fit, being a body or bodies who appear to him to be representative of those carriers ;

and in the said subsection (2), for the words "the number of 10 representatives of the Commission on the said Committee

there shall be substituted the words the aggregate number of the other members of the said Committee.'

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(3) The preceding provisions of this section shall come into force on the appointed day, and the persons who, immediately 15 before that day, are members of the Committee shall cease to hold office as such on that day unless they have been re- appointed to be members of the Committee under the said section seventy-one as amended by this section.

A.D. 1952

Arbitration

28.—(1) In subsection (4) of section one hundred and five of Amendments 20 the Transport Act, 1947 (which provides for the appointment of as to Transport

a person to discharge the duties of any member of the Transport Tribunal. Arbitration Tribunal temporarily incapable of performing the duties of his office), for the words "If any member of the arbi- tration tribunal becomes, by reason of illness or other infirmity, 25 temporarily incapable of performing the duties of his office" there shall be substituted the words "If any member of the arbitration tribunal, by reason of illness or other infirmity or absence, is temporarily unable to perform the duties of his office ".

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Any increase attributable to this subsection in the sums which, under subsection (4) of section one hundred and seven of this Act, are payable out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be paid out of moneys so provided, without prejudice, however, to the duty of the Commission under the said subsection (4) to repay 35 the increase to the Minister.

(2) It is hereby declared, for the removal of doubt, that the power of the Transport Arbitration Tribunal under subsection (5) of the said section one hundred and five to appoint a person or persons to hear and determine proceedings referred to him: 40 or them by the Tribunal may be exercised by the appointment of a member or members of the Tribunal whether with or with- out other persons:

29. Section seven of the Transport Act, 1947 (which enables Repeal of s. 7 persons carrying on undertakings to make and carry out agree, and s. 114 of

Transport 45 ments for the transfer of those undertakings to the Commission. Act, 1947.

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