{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-56.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/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Driver to carry, under an agreement for a discretionary distance, the distance to which hirer is entitled for the fare.",
  "text": "If the proprietor or driver of any such hackney carriage, or if any other person on his behalf, agree with any person to carry in or by such hackney carriage persons not exceeding in number the number so painted on such carriage as aforesaid, for a distance to be in the discretion of such proprietor or driver, and for a sum agreed upon, such proprietor or driver shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scaleif the distance which he carries such persons be under that to which they were entitled to be carried for the sum so agreed upon, according to the fare allowed by this or the special Act, or any byelaw made in pursuance thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.) by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31 and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "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      "text": "Ss. 37–66, 68 repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43, SIF 108), Sch. 5"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": "Ss. 53–59 modified (E.W.) by S.I. 1986/1386, art. 4(3)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/56",
    "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."
}