{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/section-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/section-35.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": "section/35",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "†Hackney carriages standing in any street shall be deemed to be plying for hire; and the driver thereof refusing to go with any person liable to a penalty of 40s.",
  "text": "Every hackney carriage which shall be found standing in any street or place, . . . shall, unless actually hired, be deemed to be plying for hire, although such hackney carriage shall not be on any standing or place usually appropriated for the purpose of hackney carriages standing or plying for hire; and the driver of every such hackney carriage which shall not be actually hired shall be obliged and compellable to go with any person desirous of hiring such hackney carriage; and upon the hearing of any complaint against the driver of any such hackney carriage for any such refusal such driver shall be obliged to adduce evidence of having been and of being actually hired at the time of such refusal, and in case such driver shall fail to produce sufficient evidence of having been and of being so hired as aforesaid he shall forfeit level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 35 excluded (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 35 restricted by S.R.&O. 1934/1346, (Rev. XIV, p. 795: 1934 I, p. 1236), art. 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 35 extended (E.W.S.) by Airports Act 1986 (c.31, SIF 9), s. 65(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 35 modified by S.I. 1986/1387 art. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 35 restricted by London Cab Act 1968 (c. 7), s. 3(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/22/section/35",
    "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."
}