{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of paragraph 3.\n(2) A “hire-vehicle” is a vehicle hired (by way of a trade) under a hiring agreement to which section 66 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 applies.\n(3) A “taxi”, in England and Wales, is a vehicle—\n(a) licensed under section 37 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847,\n(b) licensed under section 6 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, or\n(c) drawn by one or more persons or animals.\n(4) A “taxi”, in Scotland, is—\n(a) a hire car engaged, by arrangements made in a public place between the person to be transported (or a person acting on that person's behalf) and the driver, for a journey starting there and then, or\n(b) a vehicle drawn by one or more persons or animals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 wholly in force at 1.9.2012; para. 4 not in force at Royal assent see s. 216; para. 4 in force at 1.10.2010 for certain purposes by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(3); para. 4 in force so far as not already in force at 1.9.2012 by S.I. 2012/2184, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:11.189587+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}