London Passenger Transport Act 1933

55 Transitory provisions as to licences.

(1) The Minister may by order provide that any licence which has been granted in respect of a vehicle, or to the driver or conductor thereof, by any authority whose powers in that behalf are abolished or transferred by this Part of this Act, and which is in force immediately before the date on which section fifty-one of this Act comes into operation, shall continue in force for such a period, and have such effect for the purposes of any enactment relating to any such licence or of the Act of 1930, as may be provided by the order.

(2) The Minister may revoke, vary or amend an order made under this section.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-one hereof, a road-service licence granted under the Act of 1930 before the date on which the said section comes into operation and any backing of any such licence shall, during the currency thereof and until the date of expiry, so far as it relates to a route or portion of a route falling within any part of a traffic area transferred by this Act to the Metropolitan Traffic Area, have effect as if granted by the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area on the date of transfer, so, however, that no service of public service vehicles may be provided under any such licence otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act.