§ Section eight of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, as amended, extended, or applied by, or by any order made under, any subsequent enactment (including section fifty-one of the London Passenger Transport Act 1933), shall have effect, as respects licences granted under the said section eight after the date appointed for the coming into operation of this section, with the substitution of three years for one year as the period during which a licence granted under the said section is, if not revoked or suspended, to be in force:
§ Provided that, with a view to spreading the work of granting such licences, where an application for the grant of such a licence is made within four years from the passing of this Act, the authority by whom the power of granting the licence is exerciseable may direct that any licence granted on the application shall, if not revoked or suspended, continue in force during such period, being a period of not less than one nor more than three years from the date on which the licence is expressed to take effect, as the authority may at the time of the granting of the licence determine.
§ 3.30 a.m.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Clause makes some provision in regard to vocational licences for driving trams, trolley vehicles, omnibuses, or taxicabs for three years. It is a matter of convenience that these licences should be issued, and it is provided they may 2153 be issued for one or two years so that there may riot be a crush at the same period.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments to page 30, line 16, agreed to.