Higher Fees for P.S.V. Licences
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A S from June 1, the fee for a public service vehicle licence will be raised from £.2 to £4 and for a certificate of fitness from £3 to £5. These increases are to meet higher administrative costs and are announced in The Public Service Vehicles (Licences and Certificates) Regulations, 1952, now published.
Other alterations include a provision prescribing the time and manner in which appeals may be made against a proposal by a certifying officer to limit the duration of a certificate of fitness. The period allowed for lodging an _objection to, or making representations about, the grant of a licence or backing is extended from 14 to 21 days. Fourteen days are to be allowed in which to lodge an objection to, or make representations on, a proposed variation of a licence or backing.. •
The new regulations also empower the Licensing Authorities to dispense with certain of the requirements of the regulations in the case of applications for licences and backings covering periods up to eight weeks, where the need for the services could not have been foreseen. Under the old regulations, dispensation could be granted only in respect of applications for licences and backings for periods up to one week.
" POLITICAL BLACKMAIL," SAYS LORD MANCROFT
" ARATHER grubby experiment in
political blackmail" was how Lord Mancroft described Mr. Herbert Morrison's remarks to the effect that a Labour Government would renationalize road haulage without additional" compensation. Lord Mancroft was speaking at the annual dinner of the National Tyre Distributors' Association. in London, last Friday.
Mr. Morrison's statements, he said. showed that a potential Government had no intention of honouring agreements reached between a willing seller and a willing buyer and they would have the same effect on the sale of the British Transport Commission's asSets as Mr. Hugh Dalton's recent comments upon the textile industry.
Mr. C. M. Boak was installed as the N.T.D.A.'s new president in succession to Mr. A. Gelder. He said that he regretted the deteriorating relations between manufacturers and traders on the Tyre Trade Joint Committee. He appealed to manufacturers to help to repair the situation.
MR. QUIN EXCULPATED
WHILE an Argyllshire road was VY being examined, a car driven by Mr. W. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, was involved in a collision. with a 2-ton lorry. The drivers of the two vehicles came before Sheriff D. A. Donald at Dunoon, last week, on charges of carelessness. The Sheriff found the case against Mr. Quin not proven. but the lorry driver was found guilty and fined £3.
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