Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision as respects property accidentally left in or on public service vehicles. They replace with amendments the Regulations specified in Schedule 1. The principal changes are:—

(1) the provision in Regulations 8 and 9 of the Regulations of 1934 for an award to the conductor to whom the property is first handed or who finds the property is not reproduced;

(2) the provision in Regulation 9 of those Regulations for the charge to be paid by the owner of the property on its return to be calculated by reference to the value of the property, is replaced (in Regulation 8 of these Regulations) by a provision for the payment of a specified charge or a charge at a specified rate for articles of descriptions specified in Schedule 2 or where no description is specified of an amount related to the value of the article;

(3) the amount of the charges is increased.