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3. Where, before an application is made for a special A licence with respect to any motor vehicle included in a transport unit, that vehicle is destroyed or damaged beyond repair, another vehicle of the same or less weight unladen may be included in the application instead 5 of the destroyed or damaged vehicle and if, while any such application

is pending with respect to such a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle is destroyed or damaged beyond repair, the application shall, if the applicant so requires, be treated as if it had been made with respect to another vehicle of the same or less weight unladen instead of the 10 destroyed or damaged vehicle; and paragraph 1 of this Part of this Schedule shall apply in each case to that other vehicle as it would have applied to the destroyed or damaged vehicle.

4. Notwithstanding anything in this Part of this Schedule, where the permanent base or centre specified in an application for a special 15 A licence as that from which it is intended that the authorised vehicles. will normally be used for the purposes of carrying goods for hire or reward is not the permanent base or centre from which the vehicles in question or, as the case may be, the vehicles corresponding thereto, were last used by the Commission before the publication of the public 20 notice inviting tenders for the purchase of the transport unit, the licensing authority may refuse the application if it appears to them that the vehicles used from the first-mentioned base or centre could. not conveniently serve substantially the same areas as those which might conveniently be served by vehicles used from the second- 25 mentioned base or centre.

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In relation to such a transfer as is provided for by section four of this Act, the reference in this paragraph to the publication of the public notice inviting tenders shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of the transfer.

5. Notwithstanding the last preceding paragraph, an application for a special A licence shall be deemed, for the purposes of section eleven of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933 (which relates to the procedure on applications for licences), to be an application which the licensing authority is bound to grant.

Variation, revocation and suspension of licences, assignment of vehicles, etc.

6. No variation of a special A licence shall be made except a varia- tion consisting only of the removal of a specified vehicle from the licence, or of the specification in the licence in substitution for a 40 specified vehicle of a vehicle of the same or a less weight unladen, or

of a reduction in the number of trailers specified in the licence.

7. Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall be taken as preventing the licensing authority from exercising, in relation to special A licences, their power to revoke or suspend a licence or to give directions under 45 subsection (3) of section thirteen of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933.

8. Where the holder of a special A licence-

(a) agrees to assign any of the authorised vehicles to any other

person (other than the Commission); and

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