Road Traffic Act 1930

Financial Provisions.

86 Fees in respect of licences and certificates.

(1) Such fees as the Minister may prescribe shall be charged by the commissioners in respect of the grant or backing of licences and in respect of the issue of certificates of fitness under this Part of this Act.

(2) Any fees received by the commissioners shall be paid into the Road Fund in such manner as the Treasury may direct.

87 Salaries and expenses of traffic commissioners and staff, and &c.

(1) There shall be paid to the chairman of the traffic commissioners and to the persons acting as officers and servants of the commissioners such salaries or remuneration as the Minister may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine, and to the two other commissioners or any person appointed to act as a deputy for any commissioner such remuneration and such allowances, if any, as the Minister may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.

(2) There shall be paid to or in respect of the certifying officers and the public service vehicle examiners such remuneration and such salaries or allowances, if any, as the Minister may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.

(3) There shall be paid as part of the expenses of the roads department of the Ministry of Transport in every year such sums as the Minister may, with the consent of the Treasury, direct in respect of the salaries, remuneration, establishment charges, and other expenses of the traffic commissioners, certifying officers, public service vehicle examiners, and any other officer or servant appointed by the Minister for the purposes of this Part of this Act, including any expenses incurred in connection with the employment of police officers as public service vehicle examiners.

88 Accounts of traffic commissioners and audit.

(1) The commissioners for each traffic area shall cause proper accounts and other records in relation thereto to be kept, and shall prepare an annual statement of accounts in such form and containing such particulars as may be required by the Minister.

(2) All accounts kept under this section shall, for the purposes of subsection (5) of section three of the Roads Act, 1920, be deemed to be part of the account of the Road Fund which under that subsection is to be prepared by the Minister.

89 Amendment of s. 3 of Roads Act, 1920.

Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section three of the Roads Act, 1920 (which provides for the payment out of the Road Fund to local and police authorities of sums representing the amounts which they would have received on account of fees and charges for the purposes of the licensing of mechanically propelled hackney carriages) shall apply only in respect of such mechanically propelled hackney carriages as are not public service vehicles within the meaning of this Act.