{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 59 (qualification for drivers of hackney carriages) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) after “satisfied” insert “ —(i) ”, and\n(b) for the “or” at the end of paragraph (a) substitute\n“and\n(ii) that the applicant is not disqualified by reason of the applicant's immigration status from driving a hackney carriage; or”.\n(3) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1ZA) In determining for the purposes of subsection (1) whether an applicant is disqualified by reason of the applicant's immigration status from driving a hackney carriage, a district council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 23 in force at 1.12.2016 by S.I. 2016/1037, reg. 5(i) (with reg. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/19/schedule/5/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:15.186979+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."
}