NEW TRANSPORT LAW

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 8

NEW TRANSPORT LAW

PROVISION OF THE BILL. A '•(.0-0 UDI NATION BOAKD.” [ Per Press Association. I WELLINGTON, Dec. ... Provision for the appointment of a supreme transport authority called the Transport Co-ordination Board, to advise the Government and act as a Court of Appeal, is contained in the Transport Law Amendment Bill. The boaid is to consist of three members appointed by the Minister of Transport, of whom one will bo appointed chairman. Each appointment will be for a term not exceeding three years, and each member shall be eligible for reappointment. No person is to be an officer or member of the board who is an officer or servant of any Department of State, or who otherwise than as a member of an incorporated company in which there arc more than 20 members, is financially interested directly or indirectly in the business of carrying passengers or goods, or who is a representative officer or servant of any person, company or public authority engaged in the business of carrying passengers or goods. Pending the determination of any appeal duly lodged by a person carrying on a passenger service against the decision of the licensing authority, the appellant may carry on such service to the full extent to which he was lawfully carrying it on at the time the decision of the authority was given. Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act, any service license under that Act may, subject to the provisions of the Bill, be transferred to any person. The licensing authority is empowered to grant or refuse the trans fer of a license, but shall not in any case grant a transfer unless it is satisfied that the proposed transferee is financially able to carry on the service and is likely to carry it on satisfactorily. Any licensing authority may delegate to any person its power to grant temporary licenses. Every such license shall be subject to ratifi'eation by the licensing authority. The licensing authority may prescribe the localities to be served or the route or routes Ito be traversed, and the time-tables or frequency of tho service to be observed. It may also prescribe the fares to be charged for the icarriage of passengers, and the charges to bo made for the carriage of goods, including mails. The Governor- Ge n eral -in - Co unc.il in ay exempt passenger-service vehicles, or any passenger-service vehicles of a particular tvpe or ylass. from the requirement of tho main Act as to a certificate of fitness being in force while the same arc used in connection with a passenger service. The licensing authority may license goods-servi’ce vehicles to carry passengers in certain cases where, from a comparison of the fronds traffic ami passenger traffic, respectivc.lv, arid the revenue derived from each bv Hie service for the carriage of both goods and passengers, this course is ronsidered dosiralile.