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Fare-paying Pupils in Unlicensed Buses
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LOCAL education authorities are to ,1-4 be allowed to carry fare-paying schoolchildren without holding road service licences. They must, however, obtain the written consent of the Licensing Authority. If the children are to be carried within the London Passenger Transport Special Area, the British Transport Commission's written consent must also be secured.
A clause to this effect was inserted, last week, in the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill during the committee stage in the House of Lords. Earl de la Warr, who introduced it, said that its purpose was to empower education authorities to fill, with paying passengers, vacant seats in buses provided principally for the free transport of pupils.
To exempt education authorities entirely from the licensing system would create an undesirable precedent. The proposed procedure was thought to be reasonable.
When the Bill was passed, the Minister of Education would instruct education authorities in the form that applications should take and in the considerations that Licensing Authorities might be expected to take into account.
The new clause was amended to provide that consent should not be granted unless the Licensing Authority was satisfied that no other reasonable transport facilities existed.