# Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, Section 11: Prohibition of taximeters.


(1) No vehicle to which a London PHV licence relates shall be equipped with a taximeter.
(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.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/34/section/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-act-1998/section-11
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