London Hackney Carriages Act 1843

19 New tickets to be delivered instead of defaced or lost tickets.U.K.

Whenever the writing on any ticket shall become obliterated or defaced, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, and also whenever any ticket shall be proved to the satisfaction of [F1Transport for London] to have been lost or mislaid, the person to whom the licence relating to any such ticket shall have been granted shall deliver such ticket (if he shall have the same in his possession) and shall produce such licence to [F1Transport for London], and such person shall then be entitled to have a new ticket delivered to him, upon payment, [F2to Transport for London], of such sum of money, not exceeding [F315p], as [F1Transport for London] shall from time to time appoint: Provided always, that if any ticket which shall have been proved as aforesaid or represented to have been lost or mislaid shall afterwards be found the same shall forthwith be delivered to [F1Transport for London]; and every person into whose possession any such ticket as last aforesaid shall be or come who shall refuse or neglect for three days to deliver the same to [F1Transport for London], and also every person licensed under the authority of this Act who shall use or wear the ticket granted to him after the writing thereon shall be obliterated, defaced, or obscured, so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of [F4level 1 on the standard scale].