§ Viscount ELMLEYasked the Minister of Transport if he will summarise the duties of the traffic commissioners to be appointed under the Road Traffic Act, 1930?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONThe main duties to be performed by the Area Traffic Commissioners, otherwise than in the Metropolitan Traffic Area, may he summarised as follows:
- (1) The granting of public service vehicle licences and the inspection of such vehicles from the point of view of fitness and suitability.
- (2) The granting and backing of road service licences and the attaching of conditions thereto for the control and co-ordination of passenger services by road.
- (3) The granting of licences to drive or to act as conductor of a public service vehicle.
- (4) The granting of consents to local authorities to operate public service vehicles on routes outside their areas under Part V of the Act.
- (5) Advising the Minister on orders made by local authorities under Section 90 of the Act in respect of the routes, stopping places, parking places and stands for public service vehicles.
- (6) All matters incidental to the above such as:
- (a) The holding of public sittings for the hearing of applications for, and objections to, the grant or backing of road service licences and for other purposes.
- (b) The collection of fees.
- (c) The keeping of accounts and records.
- (d) The presentation of an annual report, etc.