{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-public-carriage-act-1869/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-public-carriage-act-1869/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/115",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-public-carriage-act-1869",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Definition of stage carriage and hackney carriage.",
  "text": "In this Act “stage carriage” shall mean any carriage for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire in any public street, road, or place within the limits of this Act, and in which the passengers or any of them are charged to pay separate and distinct or at the rate of separate and distinct fares for their respective places or seats therein.\n“Hackney carriage” shall mean any carriage for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire within the limits of this Act, and is neither a stage carriage nor a tramcar.\n“London cab order” shall mean an order made by Transport for London.\n“Prescribed” shall mean prescribed by London cab order.\nAny power to make a London cab order under this Act includes power to vary or revoke a previous such order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in definition of \"hackney carriage\" in s. 4 substituted (8.7.1996) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), s. 62(1); S.I. 1996/1609, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4: definitions of “London cab order” and “Prescribed” substituted for definition of “Prescribed” (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(2)(a) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Paragraph in s. 4 added (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(2)(b) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/115/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:38.100333+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."
}