22 Magistrates to hear and determine disputes.U.K.
It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace to hear and determine all matters of complaint between any proprietor of a hackney carriage . . . F1 and the driver . . . F1 of the same respectively, and to order payment of any sum of money that shall appear to be due to either party for wages or for the earnings in respect of any such carriage, or on account of any deposit of money, and to order compensation to the proprietor in respect of damage or loss which shall have arisen through the neglect or default of any driver . . . F1 to the property of his employer intrusted to his care, or in respect of any sum of money which such proprietor may have been lawfully ordered by a justice of the peace to pay, and which has been actually paid pursuant to such order, on account of the negligence or wilful misconduct of his driver . . . F1, and to order such compensation to either party in respect of any other matter of complaint between them as to such justice shall seem proper.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Repeals Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt XVII