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Road Traffic Act 1930
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77Drivers' and conductors' licences.
(1)A person shall not drive or act as conductor of a public service vehicle on a road unless he is licensed for the purpose under this Part of this Act, and a person shall not employ any person who is not so licensed to drive or act as conductor of a public service vehicle on a road.
(2)A person shall be disqualified for obtaining a licence to drive or act as conductor of a public service vehicle unless he is, in the case of a licence to drive, over the age of twenty-one, and in the case of a licence to act as conductor, over the age of eighteen, and fulfils such other conditions as may be prescribed:
Provided that the above-mentioned limits of age shall be dispensed with if the applicant shows to the satisfaction of the commissioners that he was during the six months immediately preceding the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, regularly employed as a driver or conductor, as the case may be, of a public service vehicle.
(3)A licence to drive a public service vehicle may be limited to such type or types of vehicles as may be specified in the licence.
(4)A licence to drive or act as conductor of a public service vehicle may at any time be suspended or revoked by the commissioners by whom it was granted upon the ground that, by reason of his conduct or physical disability, the holder is not a fit person to hold such a licence.
(5)If a person acts in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence.
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