*An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other Provisions in regard to the consolidated Offices.
[25th March 1850]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title “The London Hackney Carriages Act 1850” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Act repealed as to public service vehicles by Road Traffic Act 1930 (c. 43), Sch. 5
C3Functions of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis now exercisable by an Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Police Act 1856 (c. 2), ss. 1, 5, 7, Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c. 115), ss. 6, 8, 11, S. R. & O. 1934/1346 (Rev. XIV, p. 795: 1934 I, p. 1221) and S. I. 1955/1853 (1955 I, p. 1143)
C4Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
C5Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
C6London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1, 9, 10 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)
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F2S. 2 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 14
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F3S. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
It shall be lawful for [F4Transport for London] from time to time to appoint standings for hackney carriages at such places as they shall think convenient in any street, thoroughfare, or place of public resort within the metropolitan police district, any law, statute, or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding, and at their discretion to alter the same, and from time to time to make regulations concerning the boundaries of the same, and the number of carriages to be allowed at any such standing, and the times at and during which they may stand and ply for hire at any such standing, and also from time to time to make such regulations as [F4Transport for London] shall deem proper for enforcing order at every such standing, and for removing any person who shall unnecessarily loiter or remain at or about any such standing; and [F4Transport for London] shall cause all the orders and regulations to be made by them as aforesaid to be advertised in the London Gazette, and a copy thereof, [F5signed by a person authorised for the purpose by Transport for London], to be hung up for public inspection in [F6the offices of Transport for London], and at each of the [F7magistrates’ courts acting for an area falling wholly within an inner London borough]; and such copy shall be received in evidence in the said courts as if it were the original of which it purports to be a copy, and shall be taken to be a true copy of such original order or regulation, without further proof than [F8the aforesaid signature].
Textual Amendments
F4Words in s. 4 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 para. 2(2)(a) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.
F5Words in s. 4 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 para. 2(2)(b) (With Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.
F6Words in s. 4 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 para. 2(2)(c) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.
F7Words in s. 4 substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78(2), Sch. 11 para. 7 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(a)
F8Words in s. 4 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 para. 2(2)(d) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.
Textual Amendments
F9Ss. 5, 7 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Textual Amendments
F10S. 6 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19) s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X
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F11Ss. 5, 7 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
This Act shall be construed as one Act with the London Hackney Carriages Act, 1843, and all the provisions of the said Act, except so far as is herein otherwise provided, shall extend to this Act, and to all things done in execution of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F12Ss. 1, 9, 10 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)