{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-46.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/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Drivers not to act without first obtaining a licence.",
  "text": "No person shall act as driver of any hackney carriage licensed in pursuance of this or the special Act to ply for hire within the prescribed distance without first obtaining a licence from the commissioners, which licence shall be registered by the clerk to the commissioners, and such fee as the commissioners may determine shall be paid,for the same; and every such licence shall be in force until the same is revoked, except during the time that the same may be suspended as after mentioned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words from “and a fee” to “paid” substituted (E.W.) by Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 1(6), Sch. 6 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "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      "text": "Ss. 37–66, 68 repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43, SIF 108), Sch. 5"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. 46 extended by Town Police Clauses Act 1889 (c. 14, SIF 107:]), s. 4(1)(2); excluded (E. W.) by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 140(2), Sch. 7 para. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/46",
    "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."
}