{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/22",
  "legislation_title": "London Hackney Carriage Act 1831",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the laws relating to Hackney Carriages, and to waggons, carts, and drays, used in the metropolis; . . .\n[22nd September 1831]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title “The London Hackney Carriage Act 1831” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (c. 86), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Functions of Commissioners of Stamps as to licensing of hackney carriages now exercisable by an Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (c. 86, SIF 107:1), s. 8, London Hackney Carriages Act 1850 (c. 7, SIF 107:1), s. 2, Metropolitan Police Act 1856 (c. 2, SIF 95), ss. 1, 5, 7, Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c. 115, SIF 107:1), ss. 6, 8, 11, S. R.&O. 1934/1346 (Rev. XIV, p. 795: 1934 I, p. 1221) and S.I. 1955/1853 (1955 I, p. 1143)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 5.1.1832 see s. 77 (now repealed)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/22/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:53.148418+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."
}