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Power to provide maintain and run omnibuses in City and County of Dublin and Counties of Wicklow and Kildare.
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3.—The Company may, subject to the Provisions of this Act, provide and maintain and may run omnibuses in the City and County of Dublin and Counties of Wicklow and Kildare:
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Provided that—
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(a) the Company before running any omnibus in pursuance of the powers conferred on it by this Act shall from time to time as occasion may require submit to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health for his approval particulars of any route or routes on which the Company proposes to run omnibuses, and the Company shall not run on any route not previously approved of by the said Minister.
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Before giving his approval to a route for the purposes of this paragraph, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health shall notify every local authority through the area of which such route passes and shall consider any representations made by any such local authority in respect of such route and should he consider it necessary may hold a public local inquiry into the circumstances of the case. This paragraph shall not apply to the running of any omnibus by the Company for the purpose of meeting a public requirement of a temporary nature or an immediate necessity;
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(b) for the purposes of any local inquiry directed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health under this section inspectors of the said Minister shall have the same powers as if such inquiry had been directed under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919;
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(c) the costs incurred by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in relation to any local inquiry directed by him under this section including the salary of any inspector or officer of the said Minister engaged therein not exceeding five guineas a day but not including any costs incurred by any local authority or others appearing at such local inquiry shall be paid by the Company and the said Minister may certify the amount of such costs payable to him and every sum so certified shall be a debt due by the Company to the said Minister;
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(d) the fares charged for the conveyance of any passenger in or upon the omnibuses the property of the Company shall not, save with the approval of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, after a public inquiry duly advertised in reference thereto, exceed the sum of one penny for each two-thirds of a mile for stages fixed by the Company, provided that the Company shall not be obliged to carry any passenger for a lower initial fare than twopence (and for the purposes of this section a fraction of a mile less than two-thirds of a mile shall be deemed to be two-thirds of a mile).
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