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purchaser or the appointment of a receiver or manager in relation to his business, becomes entitled to apply for an A licence in respect of the vehicles included in that unit.

12. In this Part of this Schedule, " additional vehicles" means vehicles 5 included in a transport unit and specified as additional vehicles under subsection (5) of section three of this Act, "assignment ", in relation to any vehicles, includes the transfer of possession of the vehicles under a hire purchase agreement, and "the five year period", in relation to any vehicles, means the period beginning with the date on 10 which those vehicles or, as the case may be, vehicles corresponding thereto, were delivered as or as part of a transport unit sold by the Commission and ending with such date prescribed under subsection (2) of section three of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, as next falls before the expiration of the period of five years beginning with the 15 first-mentioned date.

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PART II

GOODS VEHICLES OF COMMISSION

1. If the Commission, before the expiration of three months from the passing of this Act, apply for the grant of an A licence or a C 20 licence authorising the use of any motor vehicles which at the passing of this Act belonged to the Commission or were in the possession of the Commission under an agreement for hire or loan, and no other motor vehicles,-

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(a) the application shall not be refused; and

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

(c) no fee shall be charged in respect of the grant of the licence: Provided that no application for an A licence shall be made under this paragraph in respect of any motor vehicles which at the passing of this Act were being used by the Hotels Executive, the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive or the London Transport Exécutive, 35 exclusively for purposes other than hire or reward.

2. An application under the preceding paragraph may extend to a specified number of trailers.

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3. If a vehicle with respect to which an application for the grant of an A licence or a C licence may be made under paragraph 1 of this Part 40 of this Schedule is destroyed or damaged beyond repair before such an application is made with respect thereto, another vehicle of the same or less weight unladen may be included in such an application instead of the destroyed or damaged vehicle and if, while any such application is pending with respect to such a vehicle, the vehicle is destroyed or 45 damaged beyond repair, the application shall, if the Commission so require, be treated as if it had been made in respect of another vehicle of the same or less weight unladen instead of the destroyed or

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