{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998/section-11.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": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Prohibition of taximeters.",
  "text": "(1) No vehicle to which a London PHV licence relates shall be equipped with a taximeter.\n(2) If such a vehicle is equipped with a taximeter, the owner of that vehicle is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) In this section “taximeter” means a device for calculating the fare to be charged in respect of any journey by reference to the distance travelled or time elapsed since the start of the journey (or a combination of both).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 8.3.2004 for specified purposes and 8.4.2004 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2004/241, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/34/section/11",
    "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."
}