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(6.) Any person desiring to obtain a motor-omnibus driver's license
shall make application to a licensing authority in the Form C set
forth in the Third Schedule hereto, and shall furnish fully and
correctly the information required thereby.

(7.) Every applicant for a motor-omnibus driver's license shall
be not less than twenty-one years of age and not more than sixty
years of age at the date of making application.

(8.) Every such application shall be accompanied by a medical
certificate, signed by a registered medical practitioner appointed by
the Minister or the licensing authority, and containing the particulars
contained in the Form D set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

(9.) The holder of a motor-omnibus driver's license shall, whenever
required by the Minister or the licensing authority so to do, submit
himself to a medical examination by some registered medical practitioner appointed by the Minister or the licensing authority.

(10.) Any licensing authority, if it appears at any time that any
person holding a motor-omnibus driver's license and for the time
being resident or engaged in driving a motor-omnibus in the district
or portion of a district in which such licensing authority has jurisdiction is or has become, whether by reason of physical incapacity or
incompetency or for any other reason, unfit to be the holder of a
motor-omnibus driver's license, may, by notice in writing served
personally upon such person or sent to him by registered-post letter
at his last known place of abode or employment, call upon such
person to appear before the licensing authority at the time and place
stated in such notice, and to produce his license and to show cause
why the same should not be revoked, and shall in such notice set forth
the grounds of the proposed revocation.

(11.) The licensing authority shall at the time and place aforesaid,
or at any other time and place to which consideration of the matter
may be adjourned, take into consideration the matters set out in such
notice and any evidence tendered in support thereof or tendered by
the holder of the motor-omnibus driver's license in reply thereto,
and may, if it thinks fit, resolve that such license be revoked, and
thereupon the said license shall be revoked accordingly.

(12.) The revocation of any motor-omnibus driver's license shall
not prevent the person holding the same from making a fresh application for a motor-omnibus driver's license pursuant to this regulation.

(13.) The issue of a motor-omnibus driver's license to any person
under this regulation shall not affect the liability of that person to
obtain and be the holder of a motor-driver's license pursuant to the
Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, and the regulations for the time being in
force thereunder, or any license to drive a vehicle or any particular
class of vehicle plying for hire that may lawfully be required under
the by-laws of any local authority for the time being in force.

(14.) Nothing in this regulation shall, until the expiration of three
years from the coming into force of these regulations, apply to any
person who on the date of coming into force of these regulations
was the holder of a license issued by a local authority pursuant to the
regulations as to motor-driver's licenses made on the 24th day of
February, 1925, under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, authorizing the
bearer to drive a motor-omnibus plying for hire.

(15.) On application by any person to whom a motor-omnibus
driver's license has been issued, and on proof to the satisfaction of
the licensing authority by statement in writing, statutory declaration,
or other evidence that such license or any copy of such license has been
lost or mutilated or become illegible, and on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.,
the licensing authority shall at any time during the currency of the
license issue to such person a copy thereof certified as being a true
copy, and such copy shall be available for all purposes for which the
original license could have been available under these regulations.

(16.) This regulation shall apply to motor-omnibus drivers in the
employ of public owners and to motor-omnibuses the property of
public owners.

8. CONDITION OF MOTOR-OMNIBUS.

(1.) The owner of any licensed motor-omnibus shall at all times
during the currency of the license therefor keep the same in a safe
and suitable condition for the carriage of passengers to the satisfaction of the Inspecting Engineer, and shall submit the same to the
Inspecting Engineer for examination whenever requested by him,
and shall not use the same during any period when the Inspecting
Engineer certifies that it is not in a fit or proper condition for use.
Every certificate by an Inspecting Engineer that a motor-omnibus is
not in a fit or proper condition for use shall state clearly the reasons
why in the opinion of the Engineer such certificate is necessary and
the defects to be remedied, if he considers them capable of being
remedied.