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London Hackney Carriage (No. 2) Act 1853 (repealed)
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London Hackney Carriage (No. 2) Act 1853
1853 CHAPTER 127 16 and 17 Vict
An Act . . .F1 to make Provision as to the Charge for the Hire of Hackney Carriages in certain Cases.
[20th August 1853]
Textual Amendments
F1Words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title “The London Hackney Carriage (No. 2) Act 1853” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Act repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43), Sch. 5
C3Functions of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis as to licensing of hackney carriages now exercisable by an Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c. 115), ss. 6, 8, 11, S. R. & O. 1934/1346 (Rev. XIV, p. 795: 1934 I, p. 1221) and S. I. 1955/1853 (1955 I, p. 1143)
C4 “the said Commissioners of Police” means the Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis
C5Functions of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis now exercisable by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Police Act 1856 (c. 2), ss. 1, 5
C6Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
C7Words of enactment and certain other words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
C8London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3
1—12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2U.K.
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 1–12, 18 repealed by Revenue Act 1869 (c. 14), Sch. (E.)
13—15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3U.K.
Textual Amendments
16 Proprietors of hackney carriages withdrawing carriages from hire beyond a certain time liable to a penalty.U.K.
The proprietor of every hackney carriage . . . F4licensed to ply for hire within the limits of this Act who shall withdraw his carriage from hire for two consecutive days, or for any two days in one week, without just cause, of which the magistrate before whom the complaint is heard shall be the judge, shall be liable to a penalty of a sum not exceeding twenty shillings in respect of every carriage for each day he shall so withdraw the same, and the licence of such proprietor shall be suspended or recalled and taken away at the discretion of [F5Transport for London]: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for such proprietor, upon giving ten days notice to [F5Transport for London], to withdraw his carriage from hire.
Textual Amendments
F4Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII
F5Words in s. 16 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 4(2); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. III
17“The limits of this Act” defined.U.K.
The limits of this Act shall be deemed to be and to include every part of the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London; and all provisions of any former Act in force referring to hackney carriages licensed under the M1London Hackney Carriage Act 1831, or to hackney carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within the distance of five miles from the General Post Office in the City of London, or to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in relation to such hackney carriages within the said distance, shall be deemed to refer and apply to hackney carriages licensed under this Act, or to hackney carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within the limits of this Act, and to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in relation to hackney carriages within the said limits.
Marginal Citations
18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6U.K.
Textual Amendments
F6Ss. 1–12, 18 repealed by Revenue Act 1869 (c. 14), Sch. (E.)
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