Peradeniya Service Bus Co.,Ltd. V. Sri Lanka Omnibus Co.,Ltd.

[IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL]

1952 Present: Lord Porter, Lord Reid, Lord Asquith of Bishopstone and
Sir Lionel Leach

PERADENIYA SERVICE BUS CO., LTD., Appellants, and
SRI LANKA OMNIBUS CO., LTD., Respondents

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL NO. 20 OF 1951

S. C. Application No. 28-Case stated under section 4 of the Motor
 Car Ordinance, No. 45 of 1938

Omnibus Service Licensing Ordinance, No. 47 of 1942, ss. 4, 6, 7-Motor Car Ordinance, No. 45 of 1938, s. 4 (6) (a) (b)-Issue of route licence-Factors to be considered- Case stated-May be sent back for amendment if necessary-Signature of Chairman alone sufficient.

Appellants, who were a Company holding a licence to run an omnibus service along a certain route, applied for a licence in respect of a further half mile between a terminus of their route and a point which fell on the route along which the respondent Company was operating an omnibus service. As against the respondent Company's competing claim to a licence along a route which would include the same half mile of road, it was proved that there was a public necessity for an omnibus service along the half mile in qu

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