Town Police Clauses Act 1889

6 Byelaws. U.K.

The Commissioners may from time to time make byelaws for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

• For regulating the conduct of the proprietors, drivers, and conductors of omnibuses plying within the prescribed distance in their several employments, and determining whether such drivers and conductors shall wear any and what badges:

• For regulating the manner in which the number of each omnibus corresponding with the number of its licence shall be displayed:

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• For regulating the number and securing the fitness of the animals to be allowed to draw an omnibus, and for the removal therefrom of unfit animals:

• For securing the fitness of the omnibus and the harness of the animals drawing the same:

• For fixing the stands for omnibuses and the points at which they may stop a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers desirous of entering or leaving the same:

• For securing the safe custody and re-delivery of any property accidentally left in any omnibus, and fixing the charge to be made in respect thereof:

• To provide for the carrying and the lighting of proper lamps for denoting the direction in which the omnibus is proceeding, and promoting the safety and convenience of the passengers carried thereby:

• To provide for the exhibition on some conspicuous part of every omnibus of a statement in legible letters and figures of the fares to be demanded and received from the persons using or carried for hire in such omnibus:

• To prevent within the prescribed distance—

(a) the owner, driver, or conductor of any omnibus, or any other person on their or his behalf, by touting, calling out, or otherwise, from importuning any person to use or to be carried for hire in such omnibus, to the annoyance of such person or of any other person;

(b) the blowing of or playing upon horns or other musical instruments, or the ringing of bells, by the driver or conductor of any omnibus, or by any person travelling on or using any such omnibus.

Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall empower the Commissioners to fix the site of the stand of any omnibus in any railway station, or in any yard adjoining or connected therewith, except with the consent of the railway company owning such site.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (c. 64), s. 14(1), Sch. 2 Pt. IV

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Function of confirming byelaws under s. 6 now exercisable by Secretary of State: Ministry of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a) and S. R. & O. 1946/1757 (Rev. XV, p. 112: 1946 I, p. 1012)