Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869
1Short title.
2Limits of Act.
3Commencement of Act.
4Definition of stage carriage and hackney carriage.
5Exemption of certain carriages from operations of Act.
Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages
6Grant of hackney carriage licences.
7Penalty on use of unlicensed carriage.
Licensing Drivers of Hackney and Stage Carriages
8Hackney carriage to be driven by licensed drivers.
Regulations relating to Hackney and Stage Carriages
9Regulations as to hackney and stage carriages.
10Penalties for breach of regulations.
11Licences by whom to be granted.
12Powers to carry Act into execution.
Legal Proceedings and Miscellaneous
13Recovery of penalties.
14Placard, &c. may be affixed to lamp post.
15Existing Acts to continue in force.

Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869

1869 Chapter 115

An Act for amending the Law relating to Hackney and Stage Carriages within the Metropolitan Police District.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to hackney and stage carriages within, the metropolitan police district:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: