Model Clauses for New Bills.
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This year's official set of Model Bills and Clauses, as amended by the House of Lords, and published by His Majesty's printers (price is. id.), contains (pages 116 to 118) specimen clauses for the guidance of local authorities and railway companies which may be about to deposit bills for the purchase and running of motorbuses. We reproduce these below :—
Motor Omnibuses (Local Authority).
(I) The Corporation may provide (but shall not manufacture) motor omnibuses and may run the same within the borough demanding and taking such reasonable fares and charges for the conveyance of passengers therein as may be approved by the Board of Trade.
(2) The Corporation may purchase by agreement take en lease and hold lands and buildings and may erect on any lands acquired by them omnibus carriage and motor houses buildings and sheds and may provide such plant appliances and conveniences as may be requisite or expedient for the establishment running and equipment of such motor omnibuses.
(3) The Corporation may make byelaws for regulating the travelling and for the prevention of nuisances in their motor omnibuses. Provided that any such byelaw shall be made subject and according to the provisions of the Tramways Act 1870 with respect to the making of byelaws. (4) Every motor omnibus moved by electrical power shall be so equipped and worked as to prevent any interference with telegraphic communication by means of any telegraphs of the Postmaster-General.
(5) All provisions of the Conveyance of Mails Act 1893 relating to the conveyance of mails on tramways shall apply and have effect in relation to the motor omnibuses provided under this section as if such omnibuses were carriages on tramways authorised after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
(6) In this section the expression "motor omnibus" means any stage carriage moved by mechanical power including in that expression steam electrical and every other motive power not being animal power.
(1) Motor Omnibuses (Railway Company). Where the Company work or use any motor omnibuses on regular or periodical services in connection with or in extension of their railway system the following provisions shall apply (that is to say) :— (I) The Company shall convey by any such omnibus all such mails (with the officers of the Post Office in charge thereof) as may be tendered by the Postmaster-General for conveyance by such omnibus and shall receive and deliver such mails from or to any Post Office or officer of the Post Office on the route of such omnibus
Provided as follows
(a) If the omnibus is intended to convey passengers only without luggage the Company shall not be bound to convey Post Office parcels; (i'z) If the omnibus is intended to convey passengers and their luggage but not goods or parcels the Company shall not be bound to convey Post Office parcels which in the aggregate exceed the limits of weight or size from time to time prescribed by the Company for the luggage of an ordinary passenger;
(c) If the omnibus is intended to convey, passengers and their luggage and parcels but not goods the Company shall not be bonnd to convey Post Office parcels exceeding in the aggregate such limits of weight and size as may be agreed between the Company and the Postmaster-General or in default of agreement settled by arbitration ;
(d) Except where the omeibus is in charge of a guard (other than the driver) and except in the case of an omnibus carrying goods the Company shall not be bound to convey any mails unless they are in charge of an officer of the Post Office (2) The remuneration for any services performed in pursuance of this section shall be such as may he from time to time determined by agreement between the Postmaster-General and the Company or in default of agreement by the Railway and Canal Commission and any question to be settled by arbitration under this section shall be determined by the said Commission who in all proceedings relating to any matter of difference referred to them under this section shall have the same powers as if it had been a matter referred to them in pursuance of the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts 1873 and 1888 or any Act amending the same: (3) The expression "motor omnibus" means any carriage running on a road moved by steam electrical or other mechanical power the expression "mails" has the same meaning as in the Regulation of Railways Act 1873 and the expression " Post Office parcel" means a parcel as defined by the Post Office {Parcels Act 1::2.