Transport Act 1968

33 Grants towards duty charged on bus fuel

(1) In relation to fuel used in operating any bus service on or after 1st January 1969, subsection (2) of section 92 of the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 shall have effect with the substitution for the words from " but " onwards (which specify the maximum amount of any grant under subsection (1) of that section by the Minister to the operator of a bus service towards defraying customs or excise duties charged on bus fuel) of the words "but the amount of a grant shall not exceed such a sum for every gallon of fuel used or estimated to have been used in operating the bus service during the period to which the grant relates as the Treasury may from time to time approve, being a sum not less than two shillings lower than the rate per gallon of the duty of customs chargeable on hydrocarbon oils imported into the United Kingdom at the date of the use of the fuel, including any addition to that duty by virtue of an order under section 9 of the [1961 c. 36.] Finance Act 1961 ".

(2) For subsection (8) of the said section 92 there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(8) In this section " bus service" means a service of stage carriages as defined by section 117 of the [1960 c. 16.] Road Traffic Act 1960, and " operator ", in relation to a bus service—

(a) means the holder of the road service licence under which the service is provided ; or

(b) where the service is provided by the London Transport Board, means that Board ; or

(c) where the service is provided by the Executive for a designated area within the meaning of section 9(1) of the Transport Act 1968, or by a subsidiary within the meaning of that Act of such an Executive, means that Executive or subsidiary ; or

(d) where the service is provided by a person otherwise than under a road service licence in pursuance of an agreement with such an Executive or with the consent of such an Executive granted under Schedule 6 to the said Act of 1968, means that person;

and in this subsection any reference to a road service licence shall include a reference to a permit under section 30 of the said Act of 1968.”

(3) So much of subsection (9) of the said section 92 as enables the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws for purposes similar to the purposes of the provisions of that section shall apply to those provisions as amended by subsection (1) of this section.