MOTOR LICENSES
AN ANOMALOUS POSITION. (Per United Press Association.) Hamilton, May 16. The anomalous position raised by the decision of Mr Luxford, S.M., that motorists’ driving licenses need not be renewed owing to an inadvertent omission in the Act of 1927, was reviewed to-day before Mr. Platts, S.ll. Counsel for tlie borough, Mr. S. Warbrick, prosecuting in further cases for failure to renew licenses, argued that the Motor Regulations Act, 1925 provided that licenses should not expire until March 31 the following year. The regulations will be in force if the amending Act is silent as to date of expiry. He contended that the local authority was competent to issue licenses for a stated period. Mr. Luxford had endeavoured to write into the Act that licenses continued indefinitely. It was a matter of conimonsense that licenses must have an expiry date. Mr. Platts reserved his decision.
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Southland Times, Issue 20489, 17 May 1928, Page 13
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