Article 17 Grants towards duty charged on bus fuel

for the definition of “bus service” there shall be substituted—

“ “ bus service ” means a service available to the general public for the carriage of passengers by road at separate fares, on which there is available to any passenger a journey of such length—

(i)

that he is set down at a place less than 30 miles, measured in a straight line, from the place where he was taken up; and

(ii)

that no point on the route between those places is 30 miles or more, measured in a straight line, from either of those places;

and does not include any part of a service as regards which taken in isolation from the whole the aforesaid requirements as to the available length of journey are not satisfied;”;

the definition of “prescribed” shall be omitted.