{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-cab-act-1896/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-cab-act-1896/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/59-60/27",
  "legislation_title": "London Cab Act 1896",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-cab-act-1896",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Penalties for defrauding cabmen.",
  "text": "If any person commits any of the following offences with respect to a cab, namely:—\n(a) hires a cab, knowing or having reason to believe that he cannot pay the lawful fare, or with intent to avoid payment of the lawful fare; or\n(b) fraudulently endeavours to avoid payment of a fare lawfully due from him; or\n(c) having failed or refused to pay a fare lawfully due from him, either refuses to give to the driver an address at which he can be found, or, with intent to deceive, gives a false address,\nhe shall be liable on summary conviction to pay, in addition to the lawful fare, a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, or, in the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding fourteen days; and the whole or any part of any fine imposed may be applied in compensation to the driver.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/59-60/27/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:10.617625+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."
}