Regulation 8 Prohibition on certain advertisements
This regulation applies to any advertisement indicating that a pedicab can be hired.
No such advertisement is to include—
any of the following words, namely “taxi”, “taxis”, “cab”, or “cabs”; or
any word closely resembling any of those words as to be likely to be mistaken for it.
An advertisement which includes the word “pedicab”, pedi-cab” or pedi cab” (whether in the singular or plural) does not by reason only of that fact contravene this regulation.
A person who issues, or causes to be issued, an advertisement which contravenes this regulation is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this regulation to prove that—
they are a person whose business it is to publish or arrange publication of advertisements;
they received the advertisement in question for publication in the ordinary course of business; and
the person did not know and had no reason to suspect that its publication would amount to an offence under this regulation.
In this regulation, “advertisement” includes every form of advertising (whatever the medium) and references to the issue of an advertisement are to be construed accordingly.