Section 5

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Authority may, in its discretion, grant to any person applying therefor a licence (referred to in this Act as a bus service licence) to provide a bus service upon the route or routes therein specified, and irrespectively of whether or not any such route or any part thereof is specified in any other bus service licence.

A bus service licence shall be for a period not exceeding 3 years and the fee to be paid therefor by the person to whom any such licence is granted shall be in accordance with a scale of fees to be prescribed by the Minister.

All fees received by the Authority under subsection (2) shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

From and after the grant of a bus service licence under this section no bus, other than the buses of the licensee, shall ply for hire along any route specified in the licence.