{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1890/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1890/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/53-54/59",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1890",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Cabmen’s shelters.",
  "text": "(1) An urban authority may from time to time provide, maintain, and remove in or near any street in their district suitable erections for the use, convenience, and shelter of drivers of hackney carriages, and such other persons as the urban authority may permit to use the same.\n(2) The urban authority may from time to time make regulations for prescribing the terms and conditions and the fees (if any) to be charged for the use of such places of shelter, and may make byelaws for regulating the conduct of persons using the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Function of confirming byelaws or regulations made under section 40(2) now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.R. &. O. 1946/1757 (Rev. XV, p. 112: 1946 I, p. 1012), art. 3(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 40 amended by Trunk Roads Act 1936 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6 c. 5), s. 3(2), Sch. 3 Pt. III; restricted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 28; modified by S.I. 1973/686, art. 3(1), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/53-54/59/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:46.300354+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."
}