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the language and script in which any traffic sign, notice, record, application, return or other document shall be written;

the exemption, with or without conditions, of any persons, or classes of persons, or vehicles or classes of vehicles, from the necessity of complying with any of the requirements of this Act;

the documents, plates and marks to be carried by authorized vehicles or any class of authorized vehicles and the manner in which they are to be carried;

the determination of the number of passengers a public service vehicle or a hire and drive vehicle is constructed or adapted to carry and the number that may be carried;

the carriage of passenger’s luggage and goods (including parcels) on public service vehicles;

the equipment to be carried by a public service vehicle;

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the types of taximeters that may be authorized, limitations on their use, and the control of the testing, repair and maintenance of taximeters;

the carriage of passengers on goods vehicles;

the granting of vocational licences, the procedure of application for such licences, the conditions to be attached thereto, the fees to be charged and the manner of payment therefor;

the testing of applicants for public services vehicles driver licences;

the conduct of persons holding vocational licences and the means of identification to be worn by them;

the conduct of persons employed on or in connection with public service vehicles, of passengers boarding, travelling in or alighting from a public service vehicle and of intending passengers waiting to board a public service vehicle;

the removal from a public service vehicle of any person infringing rules made under paragraph (l);

requiring a passenger on a public service vehicle who is reasonably suspected by the driver or conductor thereof of contravening rules made under paragraph (l) to give his name and address to a police officer or to the driver, conductor or ticket inspector on demand;

requiring a passenger in a public service vehicle to declare, if so requested by the driver, conductor or ticket inspector thereof, the journey he intends to take or has taken in the vehicle, to pay the fare for the whole of such journey and to accept any ticket provided thereof;

requiring, on demand being made for the purpose by the driver, conductor or other person authorized by the

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licensee of a public service vehicle, production during the journey and surrender at the end of the journey, by the holder thereof, of any ticket issued to him;

requiring a passenger on a public service vehicle, if so requested by the driver or conductor thereof, to leave the vehicle on the completion of the journey for which he has paid the fare;

requiring the surrender by the holder thereof, on expiry of the period or the end of the journey for which it is issued, of a ticket issued to him;

regulating the demand, collection and retention of motor vehicle road charges, including the procedure and matters connected with the demand, collection and retention of such charges.

Any rules made by the Minister under this Act shall be published in the Gazette.

Power of the Minister to amend schedules