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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-hackney-carriages-belfast-amendment-by-laws-northern-ireland-1997/section-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/365",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Hackney Carriages (Belfast) (Amendment) By-Laws (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-hackney-carriages-belfast-amendment-by-laws-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "By-Laws amended",
  "text": "(1) The By-Laws made in respect of Motor Hackney Carriages standing or plying for hire made by the Council of the County Borough of Belfast on 4th June 1951 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) For By-Law 9 there shall be substituted—\n“9 The several streets specified in the first column of the Schedule to these By-Laws annexed shall at the sites specified in column 2 of said Schedule be the prescribed public street stands for Motor Hackney Carriages not exceeding the number specified in column 3 of the said Schedule. The hours available for use of the prescribed public street stands by Motor Hackney Carriages shall be the times specified in column 4 of the said Schedule.\nA vehicle other than a licensed Motor Hackney Carriage standing or plying for hire shall not wait on any such prescribed public street stands during the times specified in column 4 of the said Schedule.”.\n(3) For the Schedule there shall be substituted—\n“SCHEDULE\n(See by-law 9)\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\nStreet\nSite in Street\nNumber of Motor Hackney Carriages\nHours Available for Use\nAMELIA STREET\nSouth Side: from a point 4.8 metres east of the east kerbline of Great Victoria Street for a distance of 35.5 metres in an easterly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing west. All gateways shall be kept clear.\n7\nAt any time\nBRADBURY PLACE\nWest Side: from a point 61 metres south of the south kerbline of Donegall Road for a distance of 20 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing north. All gateways shall be kept clear.\n4\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\nEast Side:\n(a)from a point approximately 21 metres south of the south kerbline of Albion Lane for a distance of 5 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south;\n1\nBetween the hours\nof 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\n(b) from a point approximately 46 metres south of the south kerbline of Albion Lane for a distance of 14 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south.\n3\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\nCORPORATION SQUARE\nNorth Side:\n(a)from a point approximately 95 metres east of the east kerbline of Corporation Street for a distance of 20 metres in an easterly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing east;\n4\nAt any time\n(b) from a point approximately 140 metres east of the east kerbline of Corporation Street in an easterly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing east.\n3\nAt any time\nDONEGALL QUAY\nWest Side: in the lay-by, from a point approximately 66.5 metres south of the south kerbline of Queen’s Square for a distance of 5 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south.\n1\nAt any time\nDONEGALL SQUARE EAST\nEast Side:\n(b)from a point 7 metres south of the south kerbline of Chichester Street for a distance of 20 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south;\n4\nAt any time\n(b) from a point 7 metres south of the south kerbline of Chichester Street for a distance of 20 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the east kerbline of the island of Donegall Square East and parallel therewith, facing south.\n4\nAt any time\nDONEGALL SQUARE NORTH\nNorth Side: from a point 12.5 metres east of the east kerbline of Donegall Place for a distance of 30 metres in an easterly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing east.\n6\nAt any time\nDUBLIN ROAD\nWest Side: from a point 15 metres north of the north kerbline of Ventry Street for a distance of 13 metres in a northerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south. All gateways shall be kept clear.\n3\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\nFISHERWICK PLACE\nWest Side: in the lay-by, from a point approximately 24 metres north of the north kerbline of Grosvenor Road for a distance of 15 metres in a northerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline parallel therewith, facing north.\n3\nAt any time\nGLENGALL STREET\nSouth Side: from a point 91 metres west of the west kerbline of Great Victoria Street for a distance of 33.6 metres in a westerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing west.\n6\nAt any time\nGREAT VICTORIA STREET\nWest Side: in the lay-by, from a point approximately 58 metres south of the south kerbline of Glengall Street for a distance of 15 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing north.\n3\nAt any time\nEast Side: from a point approximately 10 metres south of the north kerbline of Glengall Street for a distance of 14 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south.\n3\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m.\nLISBURN ROAD\nSouth-East Side: from a point 62.7 metres south- west of the south-west kerbline of Balmoral Avenue for a distance of 15 metres in a south- westerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south-west.\n3\nAt any time\nMALONE ROAD\nWest Side: from a point approximately 51 metres north of the north kerbline of Eglantine Avenue for a distance of 20 metres in a northerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing north.\n4\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\nEast Side: from a point approximately 60 metres south of the south kerbline of Wellington Park for a distance of 10 metres in a southerly direction. Carriages shall stand in single line by the kerbline and parallel therewith, facing south.\n2\nBetween the hours of 7.00 p.m. and 7.00 a.m.\n”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "By-Law 2 in operation at 22.9.1997, see By-Law 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The relevant amending By-Law is S.R. 1996 No. 543"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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  },
  "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."
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