{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-taxis-hiring-at-separate-fares-london-order-1986/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-taxis-hiring-at-separate-fares-london-order-1986/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1387",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensed Taxis (Hiring at Separate Fares) (London) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-taxis-hiring-at-separate-fares-london-order-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Sections 10 and 11 of the Transport Act 1985 contain provisions for the hiring of taxis at separate fares. This Order modifies the taxi code (as defined in section 13(3) of the Act) in its application to taxis licensed under section 6 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (London taxis) while being used subject to those sections. The modifications include the disapplication of the following provisions (article 4(1) and Table):\n1. any provision in so far as it prohibits the driver from touting orally for passengers to share the taxi with a passenger who has requested a service at separate fares;\n2. provisions regarding obligatory hirings ( section 35 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831, sections 7 and 17(2) of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 and article 34 of the London Cab Order 1934);\n3. provisions regarding the hirer's consent to passengers and the number of passengers (section 50 of the 1831 Act and sections 9 and 17(1) of the 1853 Act);\n4. provisions regarding carriage of reasonable luggage ( sections 10 and 17(1) of the 1853 Act); and\n5. provisions regarding fares ( articles 38–50 of the 1934 Order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1387/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:43:18.643686+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."
}