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[Ch. 55.] according to the classification fixed as aforesaid, and shall (except as hereinafter provided) show in that schedule the rates for the conveyance of merchandise, the amounts of terminal charges, and the fares for the conveyance of passengers and their luggage, and every such schedule shall be published in such manner as the rates tribunal may direct.

(2) The schedules so submitted shall be divided into the parts and be in the form mentioned. in the to this Act, or into such other parts or in such other similar form as the rates tribunal may prescribe.

Settlement of schedules

31. The rates tribunal shall consider the schedules charges so submitted to them and any objections thereto which may be lodged within. the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, and, after hearing all parties interested and who are desirous of being heard, shall, in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained, settle the schedules of charges and appoint a day of schedules of thereinafter called " the appointed day ") when the same shall come into operation.

Obligation to charge standard charges.

32. On and from the appointed day the charges appearing in the schedule of charges as fixed by the rates tribunal for each amalgamated company (in this Part of this Act referred to as " the standard charges ") shall be the charges which that company shall be entitled to make for all services rendered in respect of which charges are fixed, and no variation either upwards or downwards shall be made from such authorised charges unless by way of an exceptional rate or an exceptional fare continued, granted, or fixed under the provisions of this Part of this Act, or in respect of competitive traffic in accordance therewith.

Application of schedules to non-amalgamated companies.

33. As respects railway companies, other than companies and light railway companies and railway companies whose powers of charging have, since the fourteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and nineteen, been increased by special Act either generally or in relation to any particular class of traffic, the rates tribunal shall apply to each such company the schedule of charges of such one 'of the amalgamated companies as, after considering any objections thereto 30