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22 (c) Lighthouses and other provisions for the safety of navigation;

(d) Maritime and estuarine fishing, etc

The Federal Government would not interfere unnecessarily with native fishing rights in traditional fishing grounds.

(e) Light dues; and

(f) Wrecks and salvage

10. Communications and transport including— (a) Roads, bridges, ferries and other means of communication if declared to be Federal by or under federal law;

(b) (i) Railways, etc. excluding North Borneo Railway;

(ii) North Borno Railway;

The position of the North Borneo Railway should be reviewed after ten years together with road transport.

(c) Airways, aircraft and air navigation; civil aerodromes: provisions for the safety of aircraft;

Malayan Airways Limited and Borneo Airways Limited should for the present remain as separate entities but with close liaison and pooling arrangements between both Companies. The Federal Government should continue for the time being the present practice of allowing a rebate on landing fees for Borneo Airways and should accept the contingent liability for rural air services.

(d) (i) Regulation of traffic by land and air and by water, except—
 * (A) within State ports and harbours;
 * (B) on rivers wholly within one State but excluding Federal ports and harbours on such rivers;

(ii) Regulation of traffic excepted from sub-paragraph (1) above;

(c) (i) Carriage of passengers and goods by land and air and by water other than in vessels of under fifteen registered tons;
 * (ii) Carriage of passengers and goods excepted from subparagraph (i) above;

(i) Legislative authority over carriage of passengers and goods by land and mechanically propelled vehicles should be fully delegated to the Borneo State Governments for ten years, after which this delegation should be reviewed by the Federal Government in consultation with the State Government concerned.

(f) Mechanically propelled vehicles;

ii) The power of regulating licensing fees for mechanically propelled vehicles for a period of ten years should be similarly delegated to the North Borneo and Sarawak Governments. iii) The east of the land transport departments would be borne by the Federal Government which would reimburse local authorities performing functions on behalf of the Motor Licensing Authority.