{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853.json",
  "id": "ukpga/Vict/16-17/33",
  "title": "London Hackney Carriage Act 1853",
  "short_title": "London Hackney Carriage Act 1853",
  "long_title": "An Act for the better Regulation of Metropolitan Stage and Hackney Carriages, and for prohibiting the Use of advertising Vehicles.",
  "citation": "16 & 17 Vict. c. 33",
  "type": "ukpga",
  "year": "Vict/16-17",
  "number": "33",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1853-06-28",
  "revised": true,
  "valid_from": "2008-07-22",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "unapplied_effects": 0,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/1",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/2",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Commissioners of Police may cause carriages, &c., to be inspected, and if not in fit condition may suspend licences, and recall stamp office plate.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-2",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/3",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/46.",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "4—6",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-46.",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/7",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "7",
      "heading": "As to distances drivers of hackney carriages shall be required to drive.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-7",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/8",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-8",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/9",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": "Number of persons to be carried to be painted or marked on hackney carriage.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/10",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": "As to quantity of luggage to be carried without extra charge.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-10",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/11",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "11",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-11",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/12",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "12",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-12",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/13",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "13",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-13",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/1415.",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "14, 15",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-1415.",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/16",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "16",
      "heading": "Advertising vehicles, &c., prohibited.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-16",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/17",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "17",
      "heading": "†Drivers and conductors of metropolitan stage carriages and drivers of hackney carriages, liable to penalties for offences herein named.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-17",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/18",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "18",
      "heading": "Power to police, magistrates or Justices of the Peace to hear and determine offences.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-18",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/19",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "19",
      "heading": "Penalty for offences against this Act for which no penalty is appointed.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-19",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/20",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "20",
      "heading": "Meaning of certain words used in this Act.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-20",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/21",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "21",
      "heading": "This Act to be construed with 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 7.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-21",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/22",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "22",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/section-22",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/A.",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "(A.)",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/schedule-A.",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/2",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "S (B.) and (C.)",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/schedule-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [
    {
      "title": "Printed copy",
      "main": true,
      "language": null,
      "date": "2025-03-20",
      "size": 885021,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/pdf/ukpga_18530033_en.pdf",
      "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/16-17/33/pdfs/ukpga_18530033_en.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "made_under": [],
  "changes_made_to": 4,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriage-act-1853/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/16-17/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:40.157247+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."
}