# London Hackney Carriages Act 1843, Section 27: No person to act as driver of any carriage without the consent of the proprietor.

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

Every driver . . . authorized by any proprietor to act as driver of any hackney carriage, . . ., who shall suffer any other person to act as driver of such hackney carriage, . . ., without the consent of the proprietor thereof, and also every person, whether duly licensed or not, who shall act as driver . . . of any such carriage without the consent of the proprietor thereof, shall forfeit the sum of level 1 on the standard scale; and every driver . . . charged with such offence who, when required by a justice of the peace so to do, shall not truly make known the name and place of abode of the person so suffered by him to act as driver . . . without consent of the proprietor, and also the number of the badge of such person (if licensed), shall be liable to a further penalty of level 1 on the standard scale; and it shall be lawful for any police constable, if necessary, to take charge of the carriage and every horse in charge of any person unlawfully acting as a driver and to deposit the same in some place of safe custody until the same can be applied for by the proprietor.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/86/section/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843/section-27
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