Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998

35 References to the owner of a vehicle.E+W

(1)For the purposes of this Act the owner of a vehicle shall be taken to be the person by whom it is kept.

(2)In determining, in the course of any proceedings for an offence under this Act, who was the owner of a vehicle at any time it shall be presumed that the owner was the person who was the registered keeper of the vehicle at that time.

(3)Notwithstanding that presumption—

(a)it is open to the defence to show that the person who was the registered keeper of a vehicle at any particular time was not the person by whom the vehicle was kept at that time; and

(b)it is open to the prosecution to prove that the vehicle was kept at that time by some person other than the registered keeper.

(4)In this section “registered keeper”, in relation to a vehicle, means the person in whose name the vehicle was registered under the M1Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.