# London Hackney Carriages Act 1843, Section 19: New tickets to be delivered instead of defaced or lost tickets.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Whenever the writing on any badge shall become obliterated or defaced, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, and also whenever any badge shall be proved to the satisfaction of Transport for London to have been lost or mislaid, the person to whom the licence relating to any such badge shall have been granted shall deliver such badge (if he shall have the same in his possession) and shall produce such licence to Transport for London, and such person shall then be entitled to have a new badge delivered to him, upon payment, to Transport for London, of such sum of money as Transport for London shall consider reasonable: Provided always, that if any badge which shall have been proved as aforesaid or represented to have been lost or mislaid shall afterwards be found the same shall forthwith be delivered to Transport for London; and every person into whose possession any such badge as last aforesaid shall be or come who shall refuse or neglect for three days to deliver the same to Transport for London, and also every person licensed under the authority of this Act who shall use or wear the badge granted to him after the writing thereon shall be obliterated, defaced, or obscured, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of level 1 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/86/section/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843/section-19
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