This was Unlawful, Rules Appeal Court
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T" Queen's Bench Divisional Court on Monday allowed a prosecution appeal against the dismissal by magistrates at Brackley, Northants, last December of a summons alleging that Mr. Derek Chapman, of Ardley Road, Fewcolt, Oxford, unlawfully caused a motor vehicle adapted to carry eight or more passengers to be used as a contract carriage at Brackley without being the holder of a public service vehicle licence.
The case was sent back to the magistrates with a direction that an offence had been made out.
Lord Parker (the Lord Chief Justice), who sat with Mr. Justice Edmund Davies and Mr. Justice Widgery, said Mr. Chapman had contracted with Oxfordshire County Council to carry children to and from school at 16s. 6d. a day. On October 9 last he was found driving the vehicle in Northamptonshire without having a p.s.v. licence.
The contention the magistrates had accepted was that the words in the Road Traffic Act: "causing or permitting the motor vehicle to be used as a contract carriage without being the holder of a p.s.v. licence" did not cover use by a vehicle's owner when he was driving it himself.
"It seems to mc that the words amply cover the present case," said the Lord Chief Justice.
Drivers and Conductors Praised
RAISE for the 125,000 or more drivers and bus conductors who annually take part in safety competitions organized by the Road Operators' Safety Council is given in the council's annual report for 1962.
The report records that 78,542 drivers entered the council's 1962 safe-driving competition and 50,330 bus conductors entered the conductors' award of merit competition,