If the proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage, or any other person having the care thereof, shall, by intoxication, or by wanton and furious driving, or by any other wilful misconduct, injure or endanger any person in his life, limbs, or property, or if any such proprietor or driver, . . . F1 shall make use of any abusive or insulting language, or be guilty of other rude behaviour, to or towards any person whatever, or shall assault or obstruct . . . F2 any officer of police, constable, F3... watchman, or patrole, in the execution of his duty, every such proprietor, driver, . . . F1 or other person so offending in any of the several cases aforesaid, shall forfeit [F4level 1 on the standard scale] , . . . F5 F3...F1F3...F1F3...
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (c. 57)
F2Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c.43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X
F3Words in s. 56 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 14
F4Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31(5)–(9) and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46
F5Words repealed by Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884 (c. 43), Sch. and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate.