RENEWAL NECESSARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 14

RENEWAL NECESSARY

ANOTHER S.M.’S OPINION ON LICENCES SOUTHLAND MOTORIST FINED Press Association INVERCARGILL, Wednesday In a reserved judgment Mr. G. Cruickshank, S.M., upheU the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act where they appl'«a lc | the renewal of licences, and enterfc a conviction against an offending motorist. The defence raised was that tb* licence lasted indefinitely, and did n®require renewal. The magistrate said that up to I*' ceir.ber, 1927, the law was definite tb*all licences expired on March 31 year. To make the change over w May 31, the words about “ending IMarch” were repealed. The who** scheme of the Act and the regula-^ 0 in many places showed that an annux renewal was required. It rested ** defendant to show that by the ame ing Act the period of the licence he held had been extended until b® In support of this defendant said words “shall remain in force uE ~ March next” were repealed. To say that a licence which was fully issued for the year ending March was now indefinitely because words saying that all shall end in March were now out of the Act was, to the magis mind, an unsound propositionextend such a licence requirea definite words in a statute. _