other class shall pass all of the said respective tests (including
the test in knowledge of traffic law), save two at most, at a
good standard and those two at a fair standard.
(8) Upon the completion of the said tests the testing
officer shall make and sign and deliver to the local authority
a certificate in the said form numbered 4 in the Schedule
hereto.
6. DRIVERS OF PUBLIC MOTOR-CARS.
(1) Before the issue of a license to drive a public motor-
car the local authority shall cause to be made such inquiries
as it thinks proper as to the character of the applicant, and
shall require a satisfactory certificate of character signed
by a reputable person to be furnished to it, and shall not
issue the license unless it is satisfied that the applicant is
a person of good character. The local authority may also
cause to be made such other inquiries as it thinks fit with
reference to the suitability of the applicant to act as the
driver of a public motor-car, and may, if it thinks fit, apply
to any constable for his opinion thereon.
(2) Any local authority, if it appears at any time that any
person holding a motor-driver's license authorizing him to
drive a public motor-car, and for the time being resident
or engaged in driving a public motor-car within the district
of the local authority is or has become (whether by reason
of physical incapacity, or incompetency, or for any other
reason) unfit to be the holder of such a 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
local 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 as regards public motor-cars, and shall
in such notice set forth the grounds of the proposed revocation.
(3) The local 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 licensee in respect thereto, and
may, if it thinks fit, resolve that such license be revoked so
far as it authorizes the holder thereof to drive a public motor-
car, and thereupon an endorsement of the restricted effect
thereof shall be made thereon or a substituted license be
issued in lieu thereof, as the local authority may think fit.
(4) Any local authority partially revoking a license under
this regulation shall forthwith send particulars of such revoca-
tion to any other local authority by whom such license or any
extension thereof was issued, and such last-named local
authority shall enter such particulars in its record.
(5) The partial revocation of any license under this regu-
ation shall not prevent the person holding the same from
making a fresh application for a license of any kind under
these regulations.
(6) If the holder of a license refuses or fails to produce his
license when called upon as aforesaid he shall be guilty of an
offence against these regulations and shall be liable to a fine
of £5.
(7) Upon the partial revocation of a license as aforesaid,
and notwithstanding that the license may not have been
endorsed as aforesaid, such license shall thereafter be deemed
to authorize the holder thereof to drive a trade motor or
private motor-car but not to drive any other kind of motor-
vehicle.
(8) Nothing herein contained shall affect the liability of
any person to pay or the right of any local authority to charge
fees in respect of the licensing of passenger-vehicles to ply for
hire.
7. AGE RESTRICTIONS.
(1) A motor-driver's license issued under these regulations
shall not authorize the holder thereof, if under the age of
twenty-one years, to drive a public motor-car or a motor-
omnibus, or, if under the age of eighteen years, to drive a
trade motor weighing over 2 tons unladen.
(2) The foregoing provisions of this regulation shall not
apply to any person who proves to the satisfaction of the
appropriate local authority that prior to the 1st day of
March, 1931, and with reasonable continuity since that
date he has been lawfully engaged in driving a public motor-
car, a motor-omnibus, or a trade motor weighing over 2 tons
unladen, as the case may be.
(3) No local authority shall knowingly issue to any person
a license purporting to authorize him to drive a motor-vehicle
of a class that by virtue of this regulation he is not authorized
to drive.
8. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR MOTOR-OMNIBUS DRIVERS.
(1) Upon the issue of a motor-omnibus driver's license to any
person pursuant to the Motor-omnibus Traffic Act, 1926, it
shall be lawful for the licensing authority thereunder at the
same time to grant to such person a license under these
regulations to drive a motor-omnibus notwithstanding that
such licensing authority might not otherwise be authorized
under Regulation 3 hereof to issue such license, and notwith-
standing that the requirements of these regulations precedent
to the issue of a license hereunder may not have been complied
with :
Provided that upon the revocation by the licensing autho-
rity of a motor-omnibus driver's license issued under the
Motor-omnibus Traffic Act, 1926, the licensing authority shall
thereupon take the proper steps to revoke the license issued
by it under and to the extent provided by Regulation 6 hereof,
as made applicable by clause (2) of this regulation.
(2) Regulation 6 hereof shall apply to the driving of a
motor-omnibus and to licenses to drive a motor-omnibus
as if the term "motor-omnibus" were substituted therein for
the term "public motor-car.'
9. DURATION OF LICENSES.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing
provisions of these regulations, a motor-driver's license may
be issued during the month of May in any year to a person
being then the holder of a motor-driver's license, but any
license so issued shall not come into force until the 1st day
of June following, and, unless sooner suspended or revoked,
shall thereupon remain in force until the 31st day of May
in the year following the year of issue, and shall then expire.
(2) Every motor-driver's license issued during the month
of May in any year to a person not being then the holder of
a motor-driver's license shall be operative immediately upon
the issue thereof, and, unless sooner suspended or revoked,
shall remain in force until the 31st day of May in the year
following the year of issue, and shall then expire.
(3) In the case of a license issued pursuant to clause (1)
hereof, the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto shall be
modified by inserting after the words "this license" the
words "shall come into force on 1st June, 19 , and."
10. RECORD OF LICENSES.
(1) Every local authority shall keep a record of all motor-
driver's licenses and extensions of licenses issued by it pur-
suant to these regulations, showing with respect to each the
following particulars :-
(a) The name, address, and occupation of the licensee ;
(b) The date of issue of the license ;
(c) (Except in cases where no examination of the licensee
is required) the name of the testing officer by whom
the issue of the license was recommended ;
(d) Particulars as to any cancellation, suspension, endorse-
ment, extension, or partial revocation of the license ;
(e) Any other relevant particulars, including all those set
out in the form numbered 1 of the Schedule hereto.
(2) The said record shall be open for public inspection at
reasonable hours.
11. EXERCISE OF POWERS.
(I) The powers and duties conferred or imposed by these
regulations on any local authority (except the power of partial
revocation conferred by Regulation 6) shall be deemed to be
duly exercised and performed if exercised or performed by
any officer of that local authority generally authorized in that
behalf, or by any other person specially authorized in that
behalf by the local authority.
(2) Any person affected by the action of such officer or
other person may (save in the case of a failure to pass the
tests prescribed by Regulation 5 hereof), by notice in writing
addressed to the local authority or its Clerk and delivered at its
office, apply to the local authority to reconsider such action,
and the local authority shall thereupon take the matter into
its consideration ; and, after the person affected has been
afforded a reasonable opportunity of submitting to it any
relevant matters of fact or opinion and any evidence thereon,
the local authority may either confirm, modify, reverse, or
otherwise deal with the action previously taken.
12. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.
(1) No person shall add to a motor-driver's license any
advertisement or other words extraneo I., the license as
issued.
(2) No person shall use or retain any motor-driver's license
to which have been added any words extraneous to the license
as issued, or from which any words have been erased from the
license as issued, but any license so altered shall be deemed
to have been mutilated within the meaning of these regulations.
(3) Every person who shall do or cause or procure to be
done anything contrary to or otherwise than provided by
these regulations or any of these regulations or part of a
regulation, or shall omit to do anything therein required to
be done by him, or shall supply particulars purporting to be
in conformity with these regulations knowing them to be
incorrect or misleading commits an offence against these
regulations.