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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/34",
  "legislation_title": "Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of private hire vehicles, and drivers and operators of such vehicles, within the metropolitan police district and the City of London; and for connected purposes.\n[28th July 1998]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act (except ss. 37, 38, 40): transfer of functions (7.11.2001) by 1999 c. 29, s. 254(1)(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2001/3603, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.7.2001) by 1981 c. 14, s. 79A(2) (as inserted (1.7.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 265; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. I (with Sch. 2 Pt. II) (as amended 22.1.2001) by S.I. 2001/115, art. 2(6)); S.I. 2001/1498, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act modified (1.4.2003) by Private Hire Vehicles (London) (Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/655), reg. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified (8.3.2004) by Private Hire Vehicles (London) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/242), regs. 4, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This Act extends only to England and Wales but any provision which amends or repeals any other Act has the same extent as the provision being amended or repealed, see s. 40(3)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/34/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:33.086643+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."
}