Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, and with a tions for fresh view to facilitate the acquisition of the stage ca~rjages or Permit or for contract ca~riages within the pericd specified in section 2 the no person shall on or after the 14th Janua~y 1973 apply for existing permit for running ;ny any new permit or fcr renewal ~f the existing permit stag: c rriag: for the running of any stage carriage or contract carriage or contrcct in this State. The auth~rity or officer empowered to carriage. grant permits under the M o t c ~ Vehicles Act, shall, not- withstanding anything contained therein, grant such permit to the corporation or company owned by the Government ; or the State Transport Department of the Government, as the case may be, and to no other. Every application for the grant of a new permit or for the renewal of an existing permit and all appeals or revisions arising there from or elating thereto made or preferred before the 14th January 1973 and pending in any Court or with'aay o%cer. authority or Tribunal constituted under the Motor Vehicles Act on the 14th January 1973 shall abate. Transfer of