New Licensing Procedure Simplified
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A BOUT 14 separate types of licence rAforrn will eventually be saved by the simplification of the procedure governing applications for, and the issue of, carriers' licences. Various changes will come into operation on January I. and are authorized by the Goods Vehicles (Licences and Prohibitions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1948.
New forms of application for A, A contract, B, and C licences, and for variatiorh, will be introduced. There will also be a new procedure by which the addition of vehicles to a licence, or their deletion from it, is recorded on the licence itself, instead of by the issue of separate variation forms. The present fee of les. per licence for the variation of the conditions of a B licence will be reduced after January 1 to 2s. per vehicle.
A new type of identity certificate, to be issued for vehicles operating under A, A contract, and B licences, will show the operating centre of the vehicle under Section 58 of the Transport Act, 1947.
Applications for carriers' licences or for variations made on or after January 1, must be on the new forms, A26 which are obtainable from the Licensing Authorities. New licence forms and identity certificates will be issued for all licences granted on or after January 1. The present variation forms will continue to be used for existing licences while these remain in force, but the new type of ideatity certificate will be issued for additional vehicles.
New-style identity certificates will gradually replace the old kind, but until the Licensing Authority sends a new identity certificate to an operator and requires him to return the old one, the operator need do nothing, and his existing certificate will remain valid.