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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1926.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926.

Regulations under the Motor-omnibus Traffic Act, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of October, 1926.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section eighteen of the Motor-omnibus Traffic Act, 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations; and doth with the like advice and consent declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Motor-omnibus (Licensing) Regulations, 1926.

INTERPRETATION.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

"The said Act" means the Motor-omnibus Traffic Act, 1926 :

"Board" means a Transport Appeal Board constituted under the said Act :

"License" means a license to use a motor-omnibus or a motor-omnibus driver's license, as the context may require, and includes an authority to establish a motor-omnibus service or to continue an existing service :

"Licensing authority," in relation to a motor-omnibus district, means the licensing authority appointed therefor pursuant to section 4 of the said Act :

"Passenger," in relation to a motor-omnibus, does not include the driver thereof.

AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A MOTOR-OMNIBUS SERVICE.

3. Application for authority to establish a motor-omnibus service within any motor-omnibus district (including an application to continue an existing service) shall be made to the licensing authority of that district in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

4. (1.) Authority to establish a motor-omnibus service (including authority to continue any motor-omnibus service that has been established prior to the 1st day of November, 1926, being the date after which by virtue of the said Act it is unlawful to carry on a motor-omnibus service otherwise than in accordance with that Act) shall be in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

(2.) The conditions attached by the licensing authority to any authority granted pursuant to the said Act and this regulation may be altered by the licensing authority from time to time by notice in writing given to the licensee.

(3.) The route or routes fixed with respect to any motor-omnibus service, or with respect to any motor-omnibus used in connection with that service may, with the prior consent of the licensing authority, be temporarily varied if and while the prescribed route is under repair or is otherwise impassable.

5. A copy of every authority to establish a motor-omnibus service granted pursuant to these regulations shall, within one week after the issue thereof, be sent by the licensing authority to the Minister of Public Works.

MOTOR-OMNIBUS LICENSES.

6. (1.) Application for a license to use any motor-omnibus in connection with a motor-omnibus service shall be made to the licensing authority in the form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto.

(2.) Application shall be made separately in respect of each motor-omnibus proposed to be used in connection with any motor-omnibus service.

(3.) Every person who uses an unlicensed motor-omnibus in connection with an authorized motor-omnibus service shall be liable to the same penalties as if he were carrying on a motor-omnibus service without authority.

7. (1.) Every license to use a motor-omnibus shall be in the form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto.