52. Section 129 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :
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| | (1) No driving licence shall be valid for a motor coach, lorry or motor tricycle van unless the licence is, by entry made thereon under the hind of the Commissioner, expressed to be valid for motor coaches, lorries or motor tricycle vans, as the case may be. | | |
| | (2) No driving licence shall, under sub- section (1), be expressed to be valid for motor coaches lorries or motor tricycle vans unless the Commissioner is satisfied that the applicant for the licence or the holder thereof, as the case may be. has attained the age of twenty-one years. | | |
| | (3) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that an applicant for, or the holder of, a driving licence is unfit to drive a motor coach, lorry or motor tricycle van by reason of the fact that he habitually in a riotous of disorderly manner or is habitually drunk or suffers from any disease of an infectious or contagious nature, or that such holder is unfit to drive any such vehicle by reason of the fact that ha is a registered criminal within the meaning of the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance
| | | (a) the Commissioner may make order refusing the application that the licence be expressed to be valid for motor coaches, lorries or motor tricycle vans ; or |
| (b) where the licence has, by entry made under subsection (I), been expressed to be valid for motor coaches, lorries or motor tricycle vans, the Commissioner may make order that such entry should be cancelled or suspended and accordingly such entry may be cancelled or suspended by the Commissioner by endorsement made on the licence under his hand. |
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| | (4) Where a driving licence is cancelled or suspended or the validity of a driving licence is restricted, the holder of the driving licence shall forthwith surrender such licence to the Commissioner for necessary action. | | |
| | (5) Where any court under any written law convicts the holder of a driving licence, which is valid for any particular class of motor vehicles, of any offence which shows him to be unfit to drive a vehicle of that class, the court may, in addition to any other punishment which it may lawfully impose for that offence, order the licence to be produced to the court before the expiry of a period of five days from the date of the order and cancel the licence : | | |
| | (6) Where any entry made under subsection (1) on any driving licence is cancelled under subsection (3) or subsection (5) the Commissioner may, on application made by the holder of that licence in accordance with the provisions of section 128 (1) at any time after the expiry of two years from the date of such cancellation, make a fresh entry on that licence under subsection (!) of that section.". | | |
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