London Hackney Carriages Act 1850

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It shall be lawful for F1Transport for London from time to time to appoint standings for hackney carriages at such places as they shall think convenient in any street, thoroughfare, or place of public resort within the metropolitan police district, any law, statute, or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding, and at their discretion to alter the same, and from time to time to make regulations concerning the boundaries of the same, and the number of carriages to be allowed at any such standing, and the times at and during which they may stand and ply for hire at any such standing, and also from time to time to make such regulations as Transport for London shall deem proper for enforcing order at every such standing, and for removing any person who shall unnecessarily loiter or remain at or about any such standing; and Transport for London shall cause all the orders and regulations to be made by them as aforesaid to be advertised in the London Gazette, and a copy thereof, F2signed by a person authorised for the purpose by Transport for London, to be hung up for public inspection in F3the offices of Transport for London, and at each of the F4magistrates’ courts acting for an area falling wholly within an inner London borough; and such copy shall be received in evidence in the said courts as if it were the original of which it purports to be a copy, and shall be taken to be a true copy of such original order or regulation, without further proof than F5the aforesaid signature.

This Act shall be construed as one Act with the London Hackney Carriages Act, 1843, and all the provisions of the said Act, except so far as is herein otherwise provided, shall extend to this Act, and to all things done in execution of this Act.