Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869

Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages U.K.

6 Grant of hackney carriage licences. U.K.

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time license to ply for hire within the limits of this Act hackney . . . F1 carriages, to be distinguished in such manner as he may by order prescribe.

Any licence in respect of a hackney . . . F1 carriage under this section may be granted . . . F2 , on such conditions, be in such form, be subject to revision or suspension in such events, and generally be dealt with in such manner as the said Secretary of State may by order prescribe, subject as follows:

(1) That a hackney . . . F1 carriage licence shall, if not revoked or suspended, be in force for one year, and there shall be paid in respect thereof to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, to be carried to the account of the Metropolitan Police Fund, [F3 such sum as the person granting the licence may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, determine, and different sums may be so determined with respect to different descriptions of vehicle]:

(2) That in any such order provision shall be made for the transfer of a hackney . . . F1 carriage licence to the widow or to any child of full age of any person to whom a hackney . . . F1 carriage licence has been granted who may die during the continuance of such licence leaving a widow or child of full age, and also for the transfer of a hackney . . . F1 carriage licence to the husband of any woman to whom such licence has been granted and who marries during the continuance thereof.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII

F2 Words repealed by Transport Act 1981 (c. 56, SIF 107:1), Sch. 12 Pt. III

F3 Words substituted by Transport Act 1981 (c. 56, SIF 107:1), s. 35(1)

7 Penalty on use of unlicensed carriages. U.K.

If any unlicensed hackney . . . F4 carriage plies for hire, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage plies. And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any stand within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the carriage being an unlicensed carriage.

Any hackney . . . F4 carriage plying for hire, and any hackney carriage found on any stand without having such distinguishing mark, or being otherwise distinguished in such manner as may for the time being be prescribed by the said Secretary of State, shall be deemed to be an unlicensed carriage.

Textual Amendments

F4 Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 7: by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80, SIF 39:1), Sch. 3 Pt. I it was provided that s. 7 should have effect as if the maximum fine which might be imposed on summary conviction for any offence specified in s. 7 were a fine not exceeding £20 for a first offence and £50 for a second or subsequent offence and, as regards s. 7 as so amended, Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 35 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), 39(2) (and Sch. 3) (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply