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[Ch. 55.] (g) The reasonableness or otherwise of any conditions as to packing of articles specially liable to. damage in transit or liable to cause damage to other merchandise ;

(h) The articles and things that may be conveyed as passengers' luggage;

(i) The constitution of local joint committees and their functions and the centres at which they are to be established.

(2) The powers of the rates tribunal under paragraphs (b) to (f) of this section shall not be exercisable until the appointed day.

Classification of Merchandise.

Classification of merchandise

29.—(1) The classification of merchandise for the purposes of this Part of this Act shall, in the first instance, be that determined by the committee appointed under section twenty-one of the Ministry, of Transport Act, 1919, and that committee shall have power to settle such classification as if they had been empowered for that purpose by that Act, and, notwithstanding anything contained in that Act, shall continue in existence until they have settled such classification.

(2) The classification shall be divided into such number of classes containing such descriptions of merchandise as the committee think fit, and the committee, in determining the class into which any particular merchandise shall be placed, shall, in addition to all other relevant circumstances, have regard to value, to the bulk in comparison to weight, to the risk of damage, to the cost of handling, and to the saving of cost which may result when merchandise is forwarded in large quantities.

Standard Charges

Submission of schedules of charges.

30.—(1) The constituent companies in each group shall jointly, or with the consent of the rates tribunal any one or more of such companies may, submit to the rates tribunal not later than the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, or such later date as 'the Minister may allow, a schedule of the standard charges proposed to be made by the amalgamated company into which they are to be formed, 29