Conveyance of mail bags by tramways and public service vehicles
45 Additional provisions as to conveyance of mail bags by tramways and public service vehicles.
1
Where any . . . F2, in Great Britain, any public service vehicle is conveying or intended to convey passengers only and not goods or parcels, nothing in the last foregoing section shall authorise the F3Post Office to require mail bags to be conveyed therein either—
a
unaccompanied by F4a person engaged in the business of the Post Office travelling as a passenger; or
b
in excess of the maximum weight for the time being fixed for the luggage of ordinary passengers.
2
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3
Where . . . F2, in Great Britain, any public service vehicle is conveying or intended to convey both parcels and passengers but not goods, nothing in the last foregoing section shall authorise the F3Post Office to require mail bags to be carried therein in excess of the maximum weight for the time being fixed for ordinary parcels, or for the luggage of ordinary passengers, whichever is the greater.
4
5
Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section two of the M1Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 (which relates to the conveyance of mails by public service vehicles in Northern Ireland).