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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
IMPORTANT P.S.V. REVISIONS IN NEW BILL
Position Concerning Corridor Areas Simplified. No Help for Contract Operators •
IMPORTANT amendments to the Road Traffic Act, 1930, are contained in the new Road Traffic Bill, the provisions of which are outlined elsewhere in this issue. There are four sections relating to public-service vehicles, hut there is no provision for the simplification of the position concerning contractcarriages.
Section 16 states that public-service vehicles shall, instead of being divided into three sections, be divided into two, namely, stage carriages (motor vehicles carrying passengers at separate fares), and contract-carriages, as defined by the previous Act.
Under Section 17, Traffic Commissioners are not obliged to hold public sittings to hear or determine an application for the granting or backing of a road service licence, where it appears from the particulars submitted that the service will not be operated more than six times in any period of 12 months and that passengers will be carried only at day-return fares.
Section 1$ deals with corridor areas and states " (1) Where from the particulars submitted on an application,for a road service licence made -to the Traffic Commissioners of any traffic area, it appears that the applicant proposes to provide a service on a route running through another traffic area (in this section referred to as a corridor area '), in which the following conditions will be observed, that is to say, that passengers will not be taken up cr set down therein or permitted to alight therein for the purpose of sight-seeing or refreshment or for any similar purpose, the Commissioners may grant a licence subject to observance of those
conditions. A licence so granted shall be valid in the corridor area as if it had -been backed in the prescribed manner by the Commissioners of the corridor area.
" (2) The Commissioners, before granting a licence having validity under the foregoing 'subsection, shall consult the Commissioners of the corridor area as to the route to be followed in the corridor area in connection with the provision of the service under the licence, and may attach to the licence such conditions as they may think fit with respect to the route to be so followed."
The provisions of Section 412 of the Burgh Police (Scotland): Act, 1892, and any local Act relating to property accidentally left in a vehicle or to fixing charges made in respect thereof, shall, under Section 19, .cease to have effect as regards property left in a public-service vehicle.