{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-47.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/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Penalty on drivers acting without licence.",
  "text": "If any person acts as such driver as aforesaid without having obtained such licence, or during the time that his licence is suspended, or if he lend or part with his licence, except to the proprietor of the hackney carriage, or if the proprietor of any such hackney carriage employ any person as the driver thereof who has not obtained such licence, or during the time that his licence is suspended, as herein-after provided, every such driver and every such proprietor shall for every such offence respectively be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 47: by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80, SIF 39:1), s. 92(1), Sch. 3 Pt I it was provided that the maximum amount of fine imposable on summary conviction in respect of s. 47 instead of the maximum of £1 was £20 for a first offence and £50 for a second and subsequent offence and, as to the amounts of fine on summary conviction, Criminal justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF39:]), ss. 35 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), 38 (increase of fine) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 37–66, 68 repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43, SIF 108), Sch. 5"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": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 37–65 applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/567, regs 3, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 47 extended by Town Police Clauses Act 1889 (c. 14, SIF 107:]), s. 4(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/47",
    "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."
}