{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/89",
  "legislation_title": "Town Police Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Hackney carriages to be licensed.",
  "text": "The commissioners may from time to time licence to ply for hire within the prescribed distance, or if no distance is prescribed, within five miles from the General Post Office of the city, town, or place to which the special Act refers, (which in that case shall be deemed the prescribed distance,) such number ofhackney coaches or carriages of any kind or description adapted to the carriage of persons as they think fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) (prosp.) by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 16, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 37–66, 68 repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43, SIF 108), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 37–65 applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/567, regs 3, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 37 extended by Town Police Clauses Act 1889 (c. 14, SIF 107:1), s. 4(1)(2) and modified (E.W.) by Transport Act 1981 (c. 56, SIF 107:1), s. 35(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:21.569813+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."
}