# London Hackney Carriage Act 1831, Section 36: Compensation to be made to drivers improperly summoned for refusing to carry any person.


Provided always, that if the driver of any hackney carriage shall in civil and explicit terms declare to any person, desirous to hire such hackney carriage that it is actually hired and shall afterwards, notwithstanding such reply, be summoned to answer for his refusal to carry such person in his said hackney carriage, and shall upon the hearing of the complaint produce sufficient evidence to prove that such hackney carriage was at the time actually and bona fide hired, and it shall not appear that he used uncivil language, or that he improperly conducted himself towards the party by whom he shall be so summoned, the justice before whom such complaint shall be heard shall order the person who shall have summoned such driver to make to him such compensation for his loss of time in attending to make his defence to such complaint as such justice shall deem reasonable, . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/22/section/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/section-36
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