TRANSPORT LICENSING

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 19 August 1931, Page 6

TRANSPORT LICENSING

AMENDMENTS IN Bill, appeal power s extex nr.:). 7Bv Telegraph—Special to Stand.: , ' y WELLINGTON, Aug. iThe Transport Bill committee j, made a number of important a:. • ••. .. ments in the measure. It was ui:._. ally to operate from March 31. I but the committee has adopt::! clause making this the latest date units operation. An earlier date in. -.- be fixed by Order-in-Council. In determining applications for licenses, the licensing authority re - consider representations contained any petition from 50 or more resident-i of the district affected. The committee has amended this number to L) and lias given a specific direction dm applicants for licenses shall have »n opportunity to reply to the representations. „ The list of preferences for licenses has been extended to_ include cases where the applicant is a local authority, or other public body carrying on. a transport service and contemplates a new service wholly within its o-.vn district. Appeals to the Central Appeal Board from the decision of a local licensing authority may be made by a petition of 25 or more residents of the area affeefced. In the section covering the licensing of goods services, the committee lias deleted the clause empowering tho licensing authority in the case of services conducted wholly or partly for the carriage of goods to call on the owner to show cause why the service should not be licensed as a goods service. The committee has struck out the clause prohibiting proceedings in any court in respect of any decision by licensing authorities, the Transport Appeal Board or the Minister of Transport! The clause dealing with local authorities’ powers to fix stands or stopping places for vehicles plying for hire has been re-drafted so as to enable any licensee who is aggrieved by a local body’s decision to apply to the licensing authority, for modification or removal of the restriction. The licensing authority shall consult the local body in dealing with the matter and the decision will be subejet to tho general procedure for appeal contained in the Bill.