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15 & 16 GEO. 6

& 1 ELIZ. 2

A.D. 1952

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SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

RIGHTS OF OBTAINING LICENCES FOR FIVE YEARS FOR GOODS VEHICLES FREE OF CHARGE

PART I

VEHICLES COMPRISED IN TRANSPORT UNITS

Rights on initial application

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1. If the purchaser of a transport unit, before the date on which he obtains delivery of any motor vehicles as or as part of that unit, makes an application with respect to any of those vehicles (except additional 10 vehicles) and no other motor vehicles for an A licence authorising the use of those vehicles, then, subject to the provisions of this Part of this Schedule,-

(a) the application shall not be refused; and (b) the condition specified in section fifty-two of the Transport 15

Act, 1947 (namely that, except under or in accordance with a permit granted by the Commission, goods shall not be carried for hire or reward in any authorised vehicle if at any time while the goods are being so carried the vehicle is more than twenty-five miles from its operating centre), shall not 20 apply to the licence; and

(c) the licence shall be granted for so much of the five year period (as hereinafter defined) as remains unexpired on the date on which the licence is expressed to take effect, and subsections (1) to (4) of section three of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 25 1933, shall not apply to the licence; and

(d) no fee shall be charged in respect of the grant of the licence;

and

(e) until the application is determined, the applicant shall be in

the same position as respects the vehicles to which the 30 application relates as he would have been in if the application had been granted:

Provided that the licensing authority may entertain any such application as aforesaid which is through inadvertence or other cause made after the date aforesaid, and the preceding provisions of this 35 paragraph shall thereupon apply to that application except sub- paragraph (e) thereof.

A licence granted under this paragraph is ́hereafter referred to as a special A licence ".

2. Where a transport unit includes trailers, but not otherwise, an 40 application made by the purchaser of the unit for a special A licence with respect to any motor vehicles included therein may extend to a specified number of trailers:

Provided that the number of trailers so specified, together with the number of trailers (if any) specified by him in other such applications 45 relating to the same transport unit, shall not exceed the number of trailers (other than additional vehicles) included in that transport unit.

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