{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-59.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/154",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Public service vehicle not to ply for hire, etc., unless driver, etc., licensed",
  "text": "(1) No public service vehicle shall stand or ply for hire or carry passengers for hire unless the driver, holds a passenger-carrying vehicle driver's licence, as defined in Article 70(2) or, as the case may be, a taxi driver's licence within the meaning of Article 79A.\n(2) If a public service vehicle stands or plies for hire or carries passengers for hire contrary to this Article the owner of the vehicle shall be guilty of an offence under this Order unless he proves that the driver. . . acted without his privity or consent.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1981/199"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1991 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 59-66 excluded (23.11.2009 for specified purposes, 31.5.2016 in so far as not already in operation) by Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 4), ss. 54(1), 59; S.R. 2009/352, art. 2, Sch.; S.R. 2015/389, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+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."
}