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forthwith procure and deposit with the licensing authority a further sufficient policy or policies, to the intent that the liability of the owner may at all times continue to be fully insured to the extent aforesaid.

(11.) No person shall operate a motor-omnibus, and no owner shall permit any person to operate a motor-omnibus, in respect of which there is not in force a policy or policies complying with the requirements of this regulation.

(12.) Any dispute or difference arising between an owner and the licensing authority as to the liability of an owner under this regulation shall be referred to and determined by the Board.

(13.) In this regulation “owner” includes the executors and administrators or successors of an owner, and the assigns of an owner, but does not include any owner who is or has been declared to be a local authority within the meaning of the Tramways Act, 1908, but includes every other public owner.

10. MOTOR-OMNIBUS FARES AND TRAM FARES.

(1.) The motor-omnibus fare in respect of any passenger carried between any places served by a tramway or trackless trolley shall be at least twopence more than the corresponding tramway or trolley fare.

(2.) Where the corresponding tramway or trolley fare is fixed by reference to a concession, commutation, or other ticket (whether issued generally or for special classes of passengers, or for travelling at special or limited times, or under any other limitation as to use), or in any other way fixed otherwise than by reference to a single trip, then the motor-omnibus fare may be fixed in a similar manner, but so that the motor-omnibus fare so fixed shall always be at least twopence more per trip than the corresponding tramway or trolley fare.

(3.) The omnibus fare in respect of a passenger carried to or from a place not served by a tramway or trackless trolley shall be not less than the tramway or trolley fare corresponding as aforesaid for any portion of the journey on which such passenger might have been carried by such tramway or trolley, and the owner or driver of any motor-omnibus shall charge and collect such fares accordingly.

(4.) No person shall convey a passenger for hire in a motor-omnibus upon a consideration fixed otherwise than by reference to the trip or defined number of trips upon which a passenger may be carried.

(5.) In the event of any dispute or difference arising between the owner of a motor-omnibus and the proprietor of any tramway or trackless trolley as to the liability of such owner to comply with this regulation, such dispute or difference shall be referred to and determined by the Transport Appeal Board of the district within which the same arises.

11. ACCIDENTS.

(1.) The owner of every motor-omnibus shall, within forty-eight hours after the occurrence in connection with such motor-omnibus of any accident attended with serious personal injury to any person or with serious damage to property, give notice thereof by a telegram to the Minister.

(2.) Such telegram may be sent by the officers of the Government lines of telegraph free of charge.

(3.) This regulation shall apply to public owners.

12. CANCELLATION OR SUSPENSION OF LICENSE.

(1.) The Minister or a licensing authority may, if in the opinion of either of them the owner of a motor-omnibus has been guilty of conduct disentitling such owner to continue to hold a license, cancel or suspend the same, either in relation to one or more vehicles, for such period and subject to such conditions as he or it thinks fit.

(2.) It shall not be obligatory upon the Minister or a licensing authority to give to such owner any notice of his or its intention to exercise the powers conferred by this regulation, but such owner shall be entitled to an appeal under the provisions of the next succeeding regulation.

(3.) This regulation shall apply to public owners.

13. RIGHT OF APPEAL.

(1.) Any owner of a motor-omnibus, any City Council or Borough Council which has established a motor-omnibus service for the conveyance of passengers, and also promoters of a tramway within a district, may appeal to the Transport Appeal Board of the