Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1087

METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE DISTRICTS

Cabs

The London Cab Order 1994

Made

31st March 1994

Coming into force

23rd April 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869(1), section 1 of the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act 1907(2)and section 1 of the London Cab Act 1968(3), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and introduction

1. This Order may be cited as the London Cab Order 1994 and shall come into force on 23rd April 1994.

2. The London Cab Order 1934(4)shall be amended in accordance with Article 3 below.

Scales of fares

3. For paragraph 40 (scales of fares excluding extras) there shall be substituted the following—

“40.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the fare payable for the hiring of a motor cab shall be according to the following scale—

(a)a hiring charge of 60p, and

(b)in respect of any part of the hiring during which the cab travels at a speed exceeding 10.12 miles an hour, at the rate of 20p for 282 yards or, if the fare shown on the taximeter is £8.20 or more, at the rate of 20p for 188 yards, and

(c)in respect of any part of the hiring during which the cab is stationary or travels at a speed not exceeding 10.12 miles an hour, at a rate of 20p for 57 seconds or, if the fare shown on the taximeter is £8.20 or more, at the rate of 20p for 38 seconds.

(2) In any case where the fare according to the scale prescribed in sub-paragraph (1) above would be less than £1.00 the fare payable shall be £1.00, and in any other case where the fare would exceed a multiple of 20p by a sum which is less than 20p the fare payable shall be the next higher multiple of 20p.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Steven Norris

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

31st March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the fares payable for the hiring of a motor cab in the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London in respect of all journeys beginning and ending there.

(1)

1869 c. 115.

(2)

1907 c. 55.

(3)

1968 c. 7.

(4)

S.R. and O. 1934/1346; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1993/1093.