Hackney carriages Hackney carriages

United Kingdom

1. 37Hackney carriages to be licensed.
2. 38What to be hackney carriages. Proviso as to stage coaches.
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4. 40Persons applying for licence to sign a requistion for the same.
5. 41What shall be specified in the licences.
6. 42Licences to be registered.
7. 43Licence to be in force for one year only.
8. 44Notice to be given by proprietors of hackney carriages of any change of abode.
9. 45Penalty for plying for hire without a licence.
10. 46Drivers not to act without first obtaining a licence.
11. 47Penalty on drivers acting without licence.
12. 48Proprietor to retain licences of drivers when in his employ, and to produce the same when summoned.
13. 49Proprietor to return licence to drivers when quitting his behave well; if otherwise, proprietors to summon them. Compensation in case of licence being improperly withheld.
14. 50Licences to be suspended or revoked for misconduct.
15. 51Number of persons to be carried in a hackney carriage to be painted thereon.
16. 52Penalty for neglect to exhibit the number, or for refusal to carry the prescribed number.
17. 53Penalty on driver for refusing to drive.
18. 54Penalty for demanding more than the sum agreed for though less than the legal fare.
19. 55Agreement to pay more than the legal fare not to be binding, and sum paid beyond the proper fare may be recovered back.
20. 56Driver to carry, under an agreement for a discretionary distance, the distance to which hirer is entitled for the fare.
21. 57Deposit to be made for carriages required to wait. Penalty on the driver refusing to wait, or to account for the deposit.
22. 58Overcharge by hackney coachmen, &c., to be included in conviction, and returned to aggrieved party.
23. 59Penalty for permitting persons to ride without consent of hirer.
24. 60No person to act as driver of any carriages without the consent of the proprietor.
25. 61Penalty on drivers misbehaving.
26. 62Penalties in case of carriages being unattended at places of public resort.
27. 63Damage done by driver may be recovered from the proprietor.
28. 64Improperly standing with carriage; refusing to give way to, or obstructing, any other driver or depriving him of his fare.
29. 65Justices empowered to award compensation to drivers for loss of time in attending to answer complaints not substantiated.
30. 66Penalty for refusing to pay the fare.
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32. 68Commissioners may make Bye Laws for regulating hackney carriages.
33. 69—71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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39. 77, 78. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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