{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1831/section-51",
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  "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/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "†Improperly standing with carriage, or feeding horses in the street; refusing to give way to or obstructing any other driver or depriving him of his fare; penalty 20s.",
  "text": "If any proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage . . . shall wrongfully, in a forcible or clandestine manner, take away the fare from any other such proprietor or driver who, in the judgment of any justice of the peace before whom any complaint of such offence shall be heard, shall appear to be fairly entitled to such fare; every such proprietor, driver, . . . so offending 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      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt.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      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (c. 57) and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31(5)–(9) and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/22/section/51",
    "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."
}