Page 97 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

SECTION 96 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 83

(xiv) the construction and fittings of, and the equipment to be carried by, stage
and contract carriages, whether generally or in specified areas;
(xv) the determination of the number of passengers a stage or contract carriage
is adapted to carry and the number which may be carried;
(xvi) the conditions subject to which goods may be carried on stage and contract
carriage partly or wholly in lieu of passengers;
(xvii) the safe custody and disposal of property left in a stage or contract carriage;
(xviii) regulating the painting or marking of transport vehicles and the display
of advertising matter thereon, and in particular prohibiting the painting
or marking of transport vehicles in such colour or manner as to induce any
person to believe that the vehicle is used for the transport of mails;
(xix) the conveyance in stage or contract carriages of corpses or persons suffering
from any infectious or contagious disease or goods likely to cause
discomfort or injury to passengers and the inspection and disinfection of
such carriages; if used for such purposes;
(xx) the provision of taxi meters on motorcabs requiring approval or standard
types of taxi meters to be used in examining, testing and sealing taxi meters;
(xxi) prohibiting the picking up or setting down of passengers by stage or
contract carriages at specified places or in specified areas or at places other
than duly notified stand or halting places and requiring the driver of a
stage carriage to stop and remain stationary for a reasonable time when so
required by a passenger desiring to board or alight from the vehicle at a
notified halting place;
(xxii) the requirements which shall be complied with in the construction or use
of any duly notified stand or halting place, including the provision of
adequate equipment and facilities for the convenience of all users thereof;
the fees, if any, which may be charged for the use of such facilities, the
records which shall be maintained at such stands or places, the staff to be
employed thereat, and the duties and conduct of such staff, and generally
for maintaining such stands and places in a serviceable and clean condition;
(xxiii) the regulation of motorcab ranks;
(xxiv) requiring the owners of transport vehicles to notify any change of address
or to report the failure of or damage to any vehicle used for the conveyance
of passengers for hire or reward;
(xxv) authorising specified persons to enter at all reasonable times and inspect
all premises used by permit holders for the purposes of their business;
(xxvi) requiring the person in charge of a stage carriage to carry any person
tendering the legal or customary fare;
(xxvii) the conditions under which and the types of containers or vehicles in which
animals or birds may be carried and the seasons during which animals or
birds may or may not be carried;
(xxviii) the licensing of and the regulation of the conduct of agents or canvassers
who engage in the sale of tickets for travel by public service vehicles or
otherwise solicit customers for such vehicles;