The Committee (in the Act of 1924 and this Act referred to as " the Advisory Committee ") for the constitution of which provision was made by section one of the Act of 1924 shall, instead of being constituted in the manner provided by subsections (2) and (3) of the said section one, be constituted in the manner provided by the Twelfth Schedule to this Act, and subsections (4) and (5) of the said section one shall cease to have effect.

The term of office of the members of the Advisory Committee first appointed under this section shall be from the first day of' July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, until the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and, subject to the provisions of the said section one with respect to the term of office of persons appointed to fill casual vacancies, the term of office of persons subsequently appointed shall be three years.

The chairman of the Advisory Committee shall be such member of the Committee as the Committee may elect from amongst the members appointed by local authorities or groups of local authorities (other than the representative of the City Police).

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the provisions of the said section one shall apply in relation to the Advisory Committee appointed under this section as they applied in relation to the Committee appointed under the said section one as originally enacted.

Joint meetings of the Advisory Committee and of the Board, or, if so agreed between the Committee and the Board, of representatives of the Committee and of the Board, shall be held with a view to facilitating an interchange of views with reference to any representation so made as aforesaid, or with reference to any matter of common interest of which notice has been given by the Committee or by the Board, as the case may be, not less than fourteen days before the day fixed for the meeting.

Joint meetings for the purposes aforesaid shall be convened by the Chairman of the Advisory Committee at least three times in every year:

Provided that notwithstanding anything in this subsection a meeting shall not be required to be convened so long as the Board and the Committee agree that for the time being a meeting is not necessary.

In any case where in pursuance of section three of the Act of 1924 a public inquiry is held by a member of the Advisory Committee, or by the Committee themselves, that member or the Committee may by order require any person, subject to payment or tender of the reasonable expenses of his attendance, to attend as a witness at the inquiry and to give evidence, or to produce any documents in his possession or power which relate to the subject matter of the inquiry and are such as would not be privileged from production in a court of law, and shall have power to take evidence on oath, and that member or the chairman of the Committee shall have power to administer oaths for that purpose.

If any person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with an order made under this section, he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

The Traffic Commissioner before approving any route, or any part of a route, which lies within the metropolitan police district, or within the City of London, shall consult with the Commissioner of Police.

If any person who has applied to the Traffic Commissioner for his approval of a route is aggrieved by the refusal of the Commissioner to approve that route, or by any condition attached by him to his approval (other than a condition attached by him in pursuance of a direction of the Minister given under subsection (1) of this section), or if the Commissioner of Police is aggrieved by the approval of any route within his district or by any condition attaching to the approval (other than as aforesaid), the applicant or Commissioner of Police, as the case may be, may appeal to the Minister.

Upon any such appeal the Minister may approve the route, or part of the route, in question either unconditionally, or subject to such conditions, whether the same conditions as those imposed by the Traffic Commissioner or not, as he may think fit, or may refuse approval, and the decision of the Minister shall have effect as if it were a decision of the Traffic Commissioner and shall be final and conclusive.

The Traffic Commissioner, either on the application of the Commissioner of Police or of any person who is using a vehicle upon a route approved under this section or without any such application, may at any time alter an approved route or revoke his approval of a route under this section or alter or revoke any condition attached by him to his approval.

If the Commissioner of Police is aggrieved by the failure of the Traffic Commissioner to revoke any approval of a route under this section, or if the Commissioner of Police or any person who is using a vehicle upon a route approved under this section is aggrieved by any alteration of any route or revocation by the Traffic Commissioner of his approval of a route, or the alteration or revocation of any condition attached by him to his approval (other than a condition attached by him in pursuance of a direction of the Minister given under subsection (1) of this section), or by the failure of the Traffic Commissioner to alter an approved route, or to alter or revoke any condition attached by him to his approval (other than as aforesaid), the Commissioner of Police or that person, as the case may be, may appeal to the Minister and upon any such appeal the Minister shall be entitled to take any action which the Traffic Commissioner might have taken in the first instance, and the decision of the Minister shall have effect as if it were the decision of the Traffic Commissioner and shall be final and conclusive.

For the purpose of the last preceding subsection, a vehicle used on a special occasion for the conveyance of a private party shall not be deemed to be a vehicle carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares by reason only that the members of the party have made separate payments which cover their conveyance by that vehicle on that occasion.

Nothing in this section shall apply to any tramcar or trolley vehicle which is being operated under statutory powers.

Proceedings for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by or by the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Traffic Commissioner, or a chief officer of police.

The Minister may by order make such provision as he may consider necessary for the transition from the enactments in force immediately before the day upon which the provisions of this section come into operation and relating to the user of vehicles for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares in the special area to the provisions of this section, and may by any such order provide that any vehicle which is immediately before that day being lawfully used by any person for such purpose as aforesaid may continue to be so used, notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for such period as may be prescribed by the order and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the order.

The Minister may revoke, vary, or amend an order made under this subsection.

The provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of section six of the Act of 1924.

Before making any regulations under this section, the Minister shall refer the matter to the Advisory Committee for their advice and report, and shall give such notice of his intention to make the regulations as he may think best adapted for informing persons affected, and, if any organisation representative of the operators of public service vehicles affected by the proposed regulations make objection thereto in writing addressed to the Minister and requesting that a public inquiry be held, the Advisory Committee shall before reporting to the Minister either appoint one or more of their number to hold, or shall themselves hold, a public inquiry, at which the organisation and any other person whose interests may be affected by the proposed regulations shall be entitled to be heard in support of the objection or of the proposed regulations.

Before any such inquiry is held the Advisory Committee shall give notice of the date and place at which the inquiry will be held, and of the matters to be dealt with at the inquiry.

Any regulation made under this section shall be laid forthwith before both Houses of Parliament, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-eight days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it praying that the regulation may be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or the making of a new regulation.

Any such regulations may provide for imposing fines recoverable summarily in respect of breaches thereof not exceeding in the case of a first offence twenty pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence fifty pounds, together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding five pounds for every day, subsequent to the day on which he is convicted of the offence, during which the offence continues.

Proceedings for an offence against regulations made under this section shall not be instituted except by, or by the direction of, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Traffic Commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area or a chief officer of police.

Nothing in this section or in any regulation made thereunder shall apply to any tramcar or trolley vehicle which is being operated under statutory powers.

The provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of section seven of the Act of 1924.