(1) This Act may be called the Bombay Public Conveyances Act, 1920.
(2) This section and sections 36, 38 and 39 extend to the 3[whole of the 4[State of Gujarat]. 5[* * * * * * * * ,]:
6[Provided that on the commencement of the Bombay Public Conveyances (Unification and Amendment) Act, 1958, the rest of the Act shall come into force at once in those parts of the State of Bombay in which the Hackney-carriage Act, 1879, or the Hyderabad Public Conveyances Act, 1956, or the Bombay Public Conveyances Act, 1920, as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area or the Bombay Public Conveyances Act, 1920, as extended to the Kutch area was in force immediately before such commencement.]
2. In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- 7[(a) "Commissioner of Police" means- 8[* * * * * * * * *]
(ii) where the rest of the Act or any portion thereof has been extended to any 9[*] area and a Commissioner of Police has been appointed for that area, the Commissioner of Police for that area;
and includes any person authorised by the Commissioner of Police concerned to exercise or perform any power or duty imposed or conferred on him by this Act;]
Short title and extent.
Bom. LXX-XVI of
1958. XIV of 1879.
Hyd. Act XXX IX of
1956. Bom. VII of
1920. Bom. VII of
1920. IV of 1920.
Definitions.
The Bombay Public Conveyances Act, 1920 1920 : Bom .VII ] 6 of 16 10[(b) "public conveyance" means any wheeled vehicle, drawn or propelled on roads and used for the purposes of plying for hire for the conveyance of persons or goods but does not include a motor vehicle as defined in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, or a vehicle running upon fixed rails:]
11[(c) "licensing year" means the year commencing on such date as the Commissioner of Police, shall, subject to the condition of previous publication, fix for the purpose of licenses granted under this Act;]
(d) "driver" includes a conductor, attendant or other person in charge of a public conveyance;
(e) "licensee" means the holder of a licence granted under this Act or a public conveyance or a horse or a driver of a public conveyance.
Licensing of Public Conveyances.