Sessional Paper No. 02 of 1959/1960 on the Interim Report of the Committee Appointed to Examine the Transport Licensing Ordinance

Abstract

As notified by Gazette Notice No. 4231 of 25th November, 1958, we were appointed by you to examine the Transport Licensing Ordinance and to report thereon in the course of our deliberations we are not confining ourselves only to a detailed examination of the Ordinance itself, and the mechanics of transport licensing, but we are also including in our examination the general purposes of this legislation and the definition of the "public interest". Evidence that we have already heard, and memoranda which we have received from Government departments, the East African Railways and Harbours Administration, local authorities, boards and road transport interests, have induced us to make an Interim Report on the subject of the "public interest" in relation to competition between road and rail transport...