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Transport Act 1985

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15Extension of taxi licensing in England and Wales

(1)Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, the provisions of the [1847 c. 89.] Town Police Clauses Act 1847 with respect to hackney carriages and of the [1889 c. 14.] Town Police Clauses Act 1889 (as incorporated in each case in the [1875 c. 55.] Public Health Act 1875) were not in force throughout the whole of the area of a district council in England and Wales whose area lies outside the area to which the [1869 c. 115.] Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 applies, those provisions (as so incorporated) shall—

(a)if not then in force in any part of the council's area, apply throughout that area ; and

(b)if in force in part only of its area, apply also in the remainder of that area.

(2)Where part only of a district council's area lies outside the area to which the Act of 1869 applies, that part shall, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, be treated as being the area of the council.

(3)So much of any local Act as enables a district council to bring to an end the application of the provisions mentioned in subsection (1) above to the whole or any part of their area shall cease to have effect.

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