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MOTOR VEHICLES AND ROAD TRAFFIC ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929

MOTOR VEHICLES AND ROAD TRAFFIC ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to amend the provisions of the Motor Vehicles (Traffic and
Regulation) Act (Northern Ireland), 1926; to make further provision
for the punishment of certain offences in connection with the
driving of motor cars; to establish a Tribunal to fix fares and
rates for certain public service vehicles; to empower the Ministry
of Home Affairs to regulate general traffic on public highways; and
for purposes connected therewith.
[14th January 1930]
Ss.15 rep. by 1934 c.15 (NI) ss.1(3), 2(2); 1955 c.27 (NI) s.78
sch.3; 1970 c.2 (NI) s.192 sch.5. S.6 rep. by SLR (NI) 1952; 1955
c.27 (NI) s.78 sch.3; 1981 NI1 art.220 sch.8

MOTOR VEHICLES AND ROAD TRAFFIC ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT
7
Fares and rates Tribunal.

7.(1) There shall be established a tribunal (in this section
referred to as "the Tribunal") consisting of such three persons as
may be appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland, and having
jurisdiction to fix the fares to be charged for passengers, and the
rates to be charged for luggage and parcels, conveyed by public
service vehicles in respect of which conditions are imposed by the
Ministry of Home Affairs under section eleven of the principal Act
as to the route or routes which may or may not be used, the
arrangement of the services, or the time-tables to be observed; and
the fares and rates within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal are in
this section referred to as "fares."

(2) The Ministry of Home Affairs shall, when it imposes any such
conditions as are mentioned in sub-section (1) of this section,
refer to the Tribunal the question of the fares to be charged for
the vehicles to which the conditions apply; and, pending the
decision of the Tribunal, those fares shall be such as the said
Ministry may approve.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Tribunal to fix fares

(a)in any case which is referred to them in pursuance of
sub-section (2) of this section, or in which a representation is
made to them by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the effect that
any fares in force ought to be re-considered or revised;

(b)in any case where a local authority, or a body of persons, or
a person who deems himself aggrieved by any fares (in this section
referred to as an "aggrieved person") applies to the Tribunal to
re-consider or revise any fares in force for a public service
vehicle.

A decision of the Tribunal shall be final and not subject to
appeal to any court: Provided that the said Ministry, if it has
made a representation, or any local authority, body or aggrieved
person who has made an application, to the Tribunal under this
sub-section, may appeal on any point of law from the decision of
the Tribunal upon such representation or application to [the Court
of Appeal and the decision of that Court shall be final].

(4) The following provisions shall have effect for the purpose of
the exercise by the Tribunal of their powers and duties under this
section:

(a)The Tribunal may hold sittings in some convenient place and
thereat hear and inquire into applications and other matters within
their jurisdiction under this section, and hear, receive and examine
any evidence and information offered respecting such applications or
matters;

(b)The Tribunal may, if it appears to them that an application is
unreasonable or vexatious, order the whole or any part of the costs
or expenses of holding any sittings at which inquiry was made into
such application, or of the appearance of any person or persons at
such sittings, to be paid by the local authority, body or aggrieved
person making the application, and the Tribunal may require a local
authority, body or aggrieved person making an application to give
security for the costs or expenses of holding any sittings;

(c)The Tribunal shall have, in relation to witnesses and their
examination and the production and inspection of documents, similar
powers to those conferred upon inspectors of the Ministry of Home
Affairs by the Poor Relief Acts (Northern Ireland), 1838 to 1928;

(d)The chairman of the Tribunal shall be such one of the members
thereof as the Governor of Northern Ireland may appoint;

(e)The Tribunal may act, notwithstanding any vacancy in their number,
and two members shall be a quorum;

(f)All questions brought before or arising at meetings of the
Tribunal shall be decided by the majority of the members present
and voting, provided that in the case of an equality of votes the
chairman of the Tribunal shall have a second or casting vote;

(g)Subject to the foregoing provisions of this sub-section, the
Tribunal may make regulations governing the procedure to be observed
by it in the exercise of its powers and duties.

(5) The remuneration (if any) and expenses of the Tribunal or any
member thereof, and the costs and expenses of any sittings held by
the Tribunal, to such an amount as may be approved by the Ministry
of Finance, shall be paid out of the Road Fund (Northern Ireland)
in the same manner as expenses incurred by the Ministry of Home
Affairs in the administration of the principal Act and payable out
of the said Fund.

All sums payable by any local authority, body or person as or on
account of the costs or expenses of sittings held by the Tribunal
shall be paid into the Exchequer... in accordance with sub-section
(1) of section twenty of the principal Act; and there shall be
charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund..., and paid to
the Road Fund (Northern Ireland) in accordance with the directions
of the Ministry of Finance, a sum equal to the proceeds of all
sums paid into the said Exchequer as aforesaid.

(6) The amount of any sum ordered by the Tribunal to be paid as
or on account of costs or expenses to which this section applies
shall be certified by the Tribunal and may be recovered by the
Ministry of Home Affairs, in the case of costs and expenses of
sittings of the Tribunal, and, in any other case, by the person
whose costs or expenses are ordered to be paid, as a debt due
from the local authority, body or person by whom the costs or
expenses are payable.

S.8 rep. by 1955 c.27 (NI) s.78 sch.3; 1970 c.2 (NI) s.192 sch.5

MOTOR VEHICLES AND ROAD TRAFFIC ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT
9
Short title and construction.

9€. This Act may be cited as the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic
Act (Northern Ireland), 1929, and shall be construed as one with
the principal Act; and the principal Act and this Act may be cited
together as the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Acts (Northern
Ireland), 1926 and 1929.