Is Profit Remuneration?
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LEGAL interpretation of the word "remuneration," as used in the provision of the Road Traffic Act, 1934, that the organizer of a contract-carriage trip must not receive " remuneration " for his service, was disputed in a case before the Rhondda Stipendiary, at Porth. The point at issue is whether " remuneration " and " profit " are distinct.
Red and White Services, Ltd., defended summonses for using a vehicle as an express carriage without the appropriate licence and with causing the two vehicles concerned to be so used.
The case presented for the South Wales Commissioners was that the company, not authorized to run from Tonyrefail and Gilfach c-och to London, on September 25 last, ran a bus from each of these places. The contention that a private contract had been reached was invalidated, in the view of the prosecution, by the fact that the person contracting for, and paying for, the hire of these two vehicles, at 217 10s. each, made a profit of 22 10s. from one vehicle and 24 7s. Od, on the other.
The defence was that, subject to a ruling on the point as to " remuneration" of the organizer, the company could prove a right to run the buses as contract carriages under the specialoccasions provision of the Act. The defence contested the interpretation placed upon the word "remuneration " of the person bringing together the passengers who received no "remuneration," but did make a "profit." Neither the company nor the passengers gave this man remuneration for his services, his profit being a privately acquired sum.
The Stipendiary adjourned the case until yesterday.