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Accounts and returns by licensees under merchandise licences.
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28.—(1) The Minister may, by regulations made by him under this Act, prescribe the accounts to be kept by every person carrying on a merchandise road transport business under a merchandise licence and also the statements of accounts, returns of traffic, and other returns to be furnished periodically by every such person to the Minister and the times and occasions at which such returns are to be so furnished.
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(2) The Minister may, by the conditions attached to a merchandise licence, require the licensee under such licence to keep accounts or make returns differing (whether by addition, omission, or variation) from the accounts or returns prescribed by regulations made under this Act, and where any such condition is attached to a merchandise licence, the said regulations shall have effect in respect of the licensee under such licence subject to such condition.
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(3) The Minister may publish, as and when he thinks proper, all or any returns made to him under this section and also statistics compiled by him from such returns.
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(4) Every person who shall fail to keep the accounts or make the returns which he is required by regulations made under this Act or by a condition attached to a merchandise licence to keep or make shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day during which the offence continues.
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