{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/14/2",
  "legislation_title": "Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "; Driving and letting to Hire Hackney Coaches and Horses,; (Proviso for Stage Coaches);",
  "text": "without License from certain Commissioners.; Height of Horses used with such Coaches.; Number.; Mark on Coach.; Number of Coaches kept by one Person, &c.; Penalty £5.\nAnd for the better preserving of the said Streets and for defraying of the residue of the charge of the said Pavements be it further enacted That from and after the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person or persons shall presume to drive (excepting Stage Coaches) or let to hire by the houre or day or otherwise any Hackney Coach or Coach Horses within the Cities of London and Westminster or Suburbs of the same or within the Parishes comprised within the Bills of Mortality without an especiall leave or licence from such Commissioners as His Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seale for the Licensing and Regulating of Hackney Coaches according to the particular provisions and limitations of this Bill and that no Horse Gelding or Mare to be used with such Coaches shall be under the sise of fourteen hands high according to the Standard and that the number to be licensed shall not exceed Foure hundred And that every Coach so licensed shall have a marke of distinction by figure or otherwise as the Commissioners shall thinke fitt to the end they may be knowne if any complaint shall be made of them And that no person shall be licensed to keepe more then two Coaches which Coaches shall have every of them severall figures or markes of distinction in the same manner as if belonging to severall persons and that no person shall presume to put the same figure or marke of distinction upon his Coach that is appointed for any other Coach under the forfeiture of five pounds for every such offence one moyety whereof shall be to the Informer and the other moyety to bee paid to the Commissioners that shall be appointed for the paving and amending the streets.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/2/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:32:09.581540+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."
}