Amendment of section 47

In section 47 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (Central Act 4 of 1939), in sub-section (1), for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:-

" Provided that other conditions being equal,-

1. (a) an application for a stage carriage permit from the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation shall, as far as may be, be given preference over other applications; and
2. (b) subject to clause(a), an application for a stage carriage permit from a co-operative society registered or deemed to have been registered under any enactment in force for the time being shall, as far as may be, be given preference over applications from individual owners."