(1) Such licences shall remain in force for the licensing year, unless sooner determined under the provisions of this Act, and shall be renewable.
(2) Such licences shall contain the following and such other particulars and conditions as the Commissioner of Police may prescribe :-
(a) the full name and address of the licensee;
(b) the date on which the licence was granted and the date on which it will expire by efflux of time;
(c) the local area for which the licence is granted;
(d) the number and class of the conveyance;
(e) the number of horses or other animals (if any) by which it is to be drawn;
(f) the number of passengers (if any) which it may carry.
(3) Such licences shall not be transferred by the licensee to any other person without the sanction of the Commissioner of Police and if transferred without such sanction shall thereupon become void. Such sanction when granted shall be endorsed on the licence.
12[(4) No such licences shall be granted or renewed unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Police that the applicant has paid the vehicle tax due in respect of the public conveyance to a local authority IV of 1932.
Public conveyances to be licensed.
Licences for public conveyances.
The Bombay Public Conveyances Act, 1920 1920 : Bom .VII ] 7 of 16 constituted under any law for the time being in force.]
5. 13[(1A) The Commissioner of Police may refuse to grant licences for any class of vehicles if, in his opinion, it is undesirable that such vehicles should be used as public conveyances. The Commissioner of Police may, on the same ground, refuse to renew, and may, at any time, cancel the licences already granted for such vehicles. On such cancellation the licensee shall be granted out of the fees paid by him for the licence a refund of a sum equal to the amount of fees payable for the unexpired portion of the licence calculated in proportion to the amount paid for the full period of the licence.]
(1) The Commissioner of Police may refuse to grant a licence for a public conveyance if in his opinion the conveyance is insufficiently found or is otherwise unfit for the purpose for which it is intended.
(2) The Commissioner of Police may refuse to renew, and may at any time suspend or cancel, a licence for a public conveyance on either of the foregoing grounds or if in his opinion-
(i) the licensee has committed a breach of any provision of this Act or of a rule made under this Act or of a condition of the licence, or
(ii) a conveyance licensed for carrying goods has been used for carrying passengers.
(3) When refusing to renew, or suspending or cancelling, a licence for a public conveyance, the Commissioner of Police may erase the inscription made thereon in accordance with this Act.