FREEDOM FOR TRANSPORT The New ct Explained
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By T. G. Field-Fisher
IT took no fewer than 126 sections and 15 schedules in the Transport Act, 1947, to nationalize the country's transport system. It takes no more than 36 sections and five schedules to reverse a very large part of the process and to carry out sweeping measures of reorganization. Nevertheless, the Transport Act, 1953, requires at least as careful an examination as its predecessor and there are inevitably some passages the interpretation of which must be controversial until they have been judicially decided.
This guide is not—and cannot be from its size —a full and authoritative handbook on the Act. Rather is it intended to provide an outline and a commentary on its outstanding provisions. This is achieved by means of paraphrasing the wording of the Act in non-legal language and inter
spersing my comments and explanations on certain matters. The latter are italicized and clearly differentiated from the main text.
It should be pointed out that the true interpretation of any provision can be obtained only from the actual text of the Act itself, and that in case of doubt reference should always be made directly to it.