Hackney carriage standings in partially excluded districts
6.—(1) Any standings for hackney carriages appointed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis under section 4 of the London Hackney Carriages Act 1850(1) (“the 1850 Act”) in any highway in the excluded part of a partially excluded district shall from the appointed day be deemed to have been appointed by the council of that district under section 63 of the 1976 Act(2).
(2) So far as any provisions of regulations made under section 4 of the 1850 Act by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis relating to any such standings fix—
(a)the boundaries of the standings;
(b)the number of carriages that may wait there; or
(c)the times of day at which they may wait,
those provisions of the regulations shall have effect as if they had been determined by the council of the district in appointing the standings under section 63 of the 1976 Act, but the regulations shall otherwise cease to have effect in relation to the standings.
(3) In this article “standings” include stands.
13 & 14 Vict. c. 7; section 4 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67).
Section 63 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 was amended by the Transport Act 1985, Schedule 1, paragraph 2, by the Transport Act 1980, Schedule 5, Part II and by the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981, Schedule 7, paragraph 19.