{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843/section-28",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/6-7/86",
  "legislation_title": "London Hackney Carriages Act 1843",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Punishment for furious driving, and wilful misbehaviour.",
  "text": "Every driver of a hackney carriage, . . ., who shall be guilty of wanton or furious driving, or who by carelessness or wilful misbehaviour shall cause any hurt or damage to any person or property being in any street or highway, and also every driver, . . ., or waterman who during his employment shall be drunk, or shall make use of any insulting or abusive language, or shall be guilty of any insulting gesture or any misbehaviour, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of level 1 on the standard scale; or it shall be lawful for the justice before whom such complaint shall be brought, if in his discretion he shall think proper, instead of inflicting such penalty, forthwith to commit the offender to prison for any period not exceeding two calendar months, . . .; . . ..",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Repeals Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt XVII"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 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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XV Group2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 28 repealed so far as it relates to a waterman by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1874 (c. 96)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/86/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:36:08.599584+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."
}