5 10 15 such road or bridge, and in that event modi- A.D. 1927. (b) Provisions authorising the local authority to (d) Provisions enabling the Minister to determine (e) Such supplemental and incidental provisions as (5) An Order made under this Act may be amended by a subsequent Order of the Minister made on the application of the local authority authorised by the Order 20 to provide and maintain omnibuses. (6) An Order made by the Minister under this Act shall (except as provided by subsections (8) and (9) of this section) have effect as if enacted by Parliament, and shall be conclusive evidence that all the requirements 25 of this Act in respect of proceedings required to be taken before the making of the Order have been complied with. (7) The Minister may make such rules as he thinks necessary for regulating the procedure under this Act, 30 the payments in respect thereof and any other matters which he may think expedient to regulate by rule for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect. (8) If the Minister on consideration of an application for an Order under this section is of opinion that by 35 reason of the magnitude of the proposed undertaking or for any other special reason relating thereto the proposals ought to be submitted to Parliament he may, if he thinks fit, submit them to Parliament by bringing in a Bill for the confirmation of the Order. 40 (9) If, while a Bill confirming any such Order is pending in either House of Parliament, a petition is presented against the Order, the Bill, so far as it relates A.D. 1927. to the Order, may be referred to a select committee, or, if the two Houses of Parliament think fit so to order, to a joint committee of both Houses, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private Bills. Further provisions as to omni buses. Fares and charges. 5 2. (1) Any local authority authorised to run omnibuses under this Act may purchase by agreement, take on 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 10 plant, appliances and conveniences as may be requisite or expedient for the establishment, running, equipment, maintenance and repair of such omnibuses. (2) Every omnibus provided under this Act which is moved by electrical power shall be so equipped and 15 worked as to prevent any interference with telegraphic communication by means of any telegraphs of the Postmaster-General. (3) Every local authority authorised to run omnibuses under this Act shall perform in respect thereof 20 such services in regard to the conveyance of mails as are prescribed by the Conveyance of Mails Act, 1893, in the case of a tramway to which that Act applies. (4) The provisions of section fifty-one (Penalty on passengers practising frauds on the promoters) 25 and section fifty-six (Recovery of tolls, penalties, &c.) of the Tramways Act, 1870, shall apply to and in relation to the omnibuses provided under this Act as if they were carriages used on tramways. (5) Any local authority authorised to run omnibuses 30 under this Act may make byelaws for regulating the travelling and for the prevention of nuisances in or upon such omnibuses or in or against any premises held by the local authority in connection therewith. Any such byelaws shall be made subject to and in 35 accordance with the provisions of the Tramways Act, 1870, with respect to the making of byelaws and those provisions shall apply accordingly. 3.-(1) A local authority authorised to run omnibuses under this Act may demand and take for passengers and 40 parcels carried on the omnibuses such fares and charges as they may think fit: Provided that if the council of a borough or district A.D. 1927. in which any omnibuses are run by a local authority under this Act object to the fares and charges demanded and taken by the local authority in such borough or 5 district, they may apply to the Minister to prescribe the maximum fares and charges to be demanded and taken in such borough or district and any maximum fares and charges so prescribed shall not be exceeded by the local authority. Any maximum fares and charges prescribed 10 by the Minister under this section may be from time to time revised by him on the application of the local authority by whom the omnibuses are run or of the council of the borough or district in which they are run. (2) Every passenger may take with him personal 15 luggage not exceeding twenty-eight pounds in weight without extra charge, but all such luggage shall be carried by hand and shall not occupy any part of a seat nor be of a form or description to annoy or inconvenience other passengers. 20 (3) A local authority by whom any omnibuses are run under this Act may if they think fit carry on the omnibuses small parcels not exceeding fifty-six pounds in weight and dogs in the care of passengers, the charge for any such dog to be a sum not exceeding the fare 25 payable by the passenger, but they shall not carry any other goods or animals. (4) The fares and charges for the time being authorised under the provisions of this Act shall be paid to such persons and in such manner as the local authority 30 may by notice annexed to the list of fares and charges appoint. 4. (1) Any two or more local authorities authorised Working to run omnibuses under this or any other Act and any and other such local authority and any company body or person agreements. 35 by whom omnibuses are run may enter into and carry into effect agreements for the working, user, management and maintenance of all or any of the omnibus services provided by the contracting parties or which they are empowered to provide, subject to the provisions of the 40 respective Acts (if any) under which such omnibus services are authorised. (2) Any such local authority and any such company, body or person as aforesaid may also enter into and A.D. 1927. carry into effect agreements for all or any of the following purposes (that is to say) : Stopping (a) The working, user, management and mainten- (c) The interchange, accommodation, conveyance, (d) The payment, collection and apportionment of the fares and charges and other receipts arising from any such omnibus service as aforesaid. 10 20 (3) A local authority shall not enter into or carry into effect any agreement under the provisions of this 25 section in relation to any omnibus service, lands, depôts, buildings, sheds or property beyond their district otherwise than with the consent of the council of the borough or district within which such omnibus service, lands, depôts, buildings, sheds or property are situate: Pro- 30 vided that on complaint being made to the Minister that such consent is unreasonably withheld the Minister may, if he thinks fit, dispense with such consent. 5. Any local authority authorised to run omnibuses and starting under this Act may appoint the stations and places 35 places. from which their omnibuses shall start or at which they may stop for the purposes of taking up or setting down passengers, and may fix the time during which such carriages and omnibuses shall be allowed to remain at any such place, but the powers of this section shall not 40 be exercised outside the area of the local authority except with the consent of the council for the borough or district in which they are to be exercised. 6. (1) Any local authority authorised to run omni- A.D. 1927. buses under this Act may attach to any lamp-post, pole, standard or other similar erection erected on or in the Attachhighway on or near to any of their omnibus routes signs signs 5 or directions indicating the position of stopping places indicating stopping for omnibuses: ment of &c. Provided that in cases where the local authority places to lamp-posts, are not the owners of such lamp-post, pole, standard or similar erection they shall give notice in writing of their 10 intention to attach thereto any such sign or direction, and shall make compensation to the owner for any damage or injury occasioned to the lamp-post, pole, standard or similar erection by the attachment, and the local authority shall indemnify the owner against any 15 claim for damage occasioned to any person or property by or by reason of the attachment. (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the owner to retain any such lamp-post, pole, standard, or similar erection when no longer required for 20 his purposes. 25 30 35 40 (3) A local authority shall not attach any such sign or direction to any pole, post, or standard belonging to the Postmaster-General except with his consent in writing. 7. In this Act unless the context otherwise re- Interpretaquirestion. The expression "the Minister" means the Minister of Transport; The expression "local authority means (1) the council of any borough or urban district, and (2) any joint board or joint committee. if such council, board or committee shall have |