# Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, Section 7: Penalty on use of unlicensed carriages.

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

If any unlicensed hackney . . . carriage plies for hire, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage plies. And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any stand within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the carriage being an unlicensed carriage.
Any hackney . . . carriage plying for hire, and any hackney carriage found on any stand without having such distinguishing mark, or being otherwise distinguished in such manner as may for the time being be prescribed . . ., shall be deemed to be an unlicensed carriage.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/115/section/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-public-carriage-act-1869/section-7
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