Paragraph 8 Arrangements for a shared service

If a person seeks to hire for a shared service a taxi available for hire under this Scheme and the driver is unable to find at least one other person to share the hiring within a reasonable time, then no fare or other charge shall be payable and the driver shall be free to seek an alternative hiring provided that the driver and the first mentioned person may continue to wait for another person to offer to share the taxi for so long as they both agree to do so.

The driver of a taxi available for hire under this Scheme may refuse to accept as a passenger for a shared service any person on the grounds that his intended destination could not be reached without an excessive or unreasonable addition to the length or duration of the journey of any passenger previously accepted for a journey, but shall not refuse to carry a person already accepted by him as a passenger because his destination is not on such grounds compatible with that of a person who subsequently seeks a shared service.

Before the commencement of any journey from the authorised place by a taxi for the purpose of a shared service, any person may (notwithstanding any earlier agreement) decide not to be carried as a passenger and no fare or other charge shall be payable by that person.