Bar of applications for fresh permit or for renewal of the existing permit for running any stage carriage or contract carriage

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, and with a view to facilitate the acquisition of the stage carriages or contract carriages within the period specified in section 2 no person shall on or after the 14th January 1973 apply for any new permit or for renewal of the existing permit for the running of any stage carriage or contract carriage in this State. The authority or officer empowered to grant permits under the Motor Vehicles Act, shall, notwithstanding anything contained therein, grant such permit to the corporation or company owned by the Government ; or the State Transport Department of the Government, as the case may be, and to no other. Every application for the grant of a new permit or for the renewal of an existing permit and all appeals or revisions arising therefrom or relating thereto made or preferred before the 14th January 1973 and pending in any Court or with any officer, authority or Tribunal constituted under the Motor Vehicles Act on the 14th January 1973 shall abate.