Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall proved by be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings. This section shall not apply to the sale of newspapers. Special Limits. Commissioner of Police. 10. The Commissioner of Police, with the approval of one of her Power of Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time Commissioner direct that any street or portion of a street within the general of Police to limits of this Act is to be deemed to be within the special limits of make special this Act, and may from time to time take any street or portion of limits. a street out of the special limits of this Act: Provided, 1st. That an order made by the Commissioner of Police under this section shall not come into effect until the expiration of ten days from the date of the approval thereof by the Secretary of State: 2nd. That notice that an order has been submitted for the approval of the said Secretary of State under this section in respect of any street or portion of a street shall be affixed to a lamp post or otherwise placarded in some conspicuous position in or near the street or portion of a street to which such intended order relates, and at the principal office of the local authority having charge of such street and of the metropolitan police and of the city police respectively, for not less than twenty-eight days previously to the approval of the said Secretary of State being given to the said order: 3rd. That a copy of such order when approved by the said Secretary of State shall be published in the London Gazette, and also affixed to a lamp post or otherwise placarded in some conspicuous position in or near the street or portion of a street to which the said order relates, and shall always during the time that the order is in force be kept so affixed or placarded. A copy of the London Gazette containing any order purporting to be made in pursuance of this section shall be evidence of the contents of such order and of the same having been duly made and approved in manner provided by this Act, and until the contrary is proved the provisions of this Act with respect to the affixing or placarding of such order shall be deemed to have been duly complied with. 11. The Commissioner of Police, with the approval of the said Regulations Secretary of State, and the Commissioner of City Police, with the within special consent of the Court of mayor and aldermen, and subject to the limits. approval of the said Secretary of State, may from time to time make regulations to be observed by all persons within the special limits of this Act with respect to the following matters: 1. With respect to the route to be taken by all carts, carriages, And may, with the like approval, from time to time alter, vary, or addition to or in lieu of any existing regulations; but this section shall not authorize the Commissioner of Police or the Secretary of State to limit the number of metropolitan stage carriages that may pass down any street in pursuance of their ordinary trade. Penalty for 12. Any person wilfully disregarding or refusing to conform disobedience to any regulation of the Commissioner of Police made in pursuance to regulations. of this Act shall incur a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each offence; and any constable may take into custody without warrant any person who within view of such constable wilfully disregards or refuses to conform to any such regulation, and refuses to give his name and address to such constable; and any printed copy of such regulations certified under the hand of the Commissioner of Police who made the same to be a true copy of regulations made by him, or purporting to be printed by the Queen's printer, shall be evidence of such regulations, and until the contrary is proved all such regulations shall be deemed to have been duly Publication of regulations. made. 13. A printed copy of all regulations made by the Commissioner of Police in pursuance of this Act shall be hung up for public inspection in such places within his district as the Commissioner of Police thinks advisable; but it shall not be necessary in enforcing any regulation to prove that the provisions of this section have been complied with, nor shall the non-compliance therewith invalidate any regulation. Regulation of 14. Within the special limits of this Act no driver of or conductor metropolitan of a metropolitan stage carriage shall take up or set down passtage carsengers at any place where he may for the time being be prohibited riages in by regulation of the Commissioner of Police from taking them up special limits. or setting them down; and any driver or conductor acting in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. As to the loading and unloading of coal and casks in streets. Prohibition of carriage of timber and other large articles between certain hours. 15. Between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening no coal shall be loaded or unloaded on or across any footway within the special limits of this Act, and between the same hours and within the same limits no casks, whether empty or full, (wine or spirits in cask excepted,) shall be lowered or drawn up by means of ropes, chains, or other machinery passing across the footway or any part thereof. Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 16. No person shall, within the special limits of this Act, and between the hours of ten in the morning and seven in the evening, except with the permission of the Commissioner of Police,1. Drive or conduct along any street any cart, carriage, or other vehicle laden with timber, metal, or any other article which exceeds in length thirty-five feet, or which protrudes more than eight feet six inches behind the vehicle or more than one foot from the sides of the vehicle: 2. Carry in any way along any street any ladder, scaffold pole, or other article which exceeds thirty-five feet in length or eight feet six inches in breadth: 3. Drive or conduct along any street any cart, waggon, or other vehicle used for conveying goods or merchandise, and drawn by more than four horses: Any person acting in contravention of this section shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. No penalty shall be imposed on or costs awarded against any person for acting in contravention of this section if such person prove to the satisfaction of the magistrate having power to impose the penalty that the act alleged to be in contravention of this section was done on the occasion of a fire or other sudden emergency with a view to prevent accident, or to save life or property. Any bye law, rule, order, or regulation made or to be made within the city of London and the liberties thereof that is inconsistent with this section shall be void. PART II. Hackney Carriages. : 17. The following regulations shall be made with respect to Regulations hackney carriages as defined by the Hackney Carriage Acts, and as to hackney plying within the limits defined for the purposes of those Acts:- carriages. [Paragraph 1 is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1875.] 2. The Commissioner of Police of the metropolis may from time to time cause to be affixed such plate or mark in such position as he thinks expedient to any hackney carriage certified by him to be in a fit condition for public use, and may cause to be removed such plate or mark whenever such carriage has, after notice to the owner thereof, been determined by him to be in a condition unfit for public use. If any plate or mark adopted by the said Commissioner of Police of the metropolis for distinguishing hackney carriages that are fit for public use is affixed to any hackney carriage without his authority, or if any plate or mark counterfeiting or resembling such authorized plate or mark is affixed to any hackney carriage, the owner of the carriage, and also the driver (unless such owner or driver proves that he was ignorant of the plate or mark being affixed to the carriage in contravention of this section), shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings: For the purposes of this Act the expression "Hackney Carriage An Act passed in the session of the first and second years of the An Act passed in the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighty-six, intituled "An Act for regulating Hackney and Stage Carriages in and near London": An Act passed in the session of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter seven, intituled "An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of the Com Placard, &c. may be affixed to lamp post. Extension of sect. 52 of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47. No fare to be less than 18. Construction of Act. missioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other Provisions in regard to the consolidated Offices": An Act passed in the session of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter thirty-three, intituled "An Act for the better Regulation of Metropolitan Stage and Hackney Carriages, and for prohibiting the use of advertising Vehicles": An Act passed in the session of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, intituled " An Act to reduce the Duties payable in respect of Hackney Carriages used in the Metropolis, and to amend the Laws relating to the granting of Licences and Payment of Duties in respect of Metropolitan Stage and Hackney Carriages, and to make Provision as to the Charge for the Hire of Hackney Carriages in certain Cases." 22. The said Secretary of State or the Commissioner of Police may cause to be attached to any lamp post any placard or signal he may think expedient for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. 24. The powers vested in the Commissioners of Police by the fifty-second section of the Act of the session of the second and third years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fortyseven, with respect to keeping order in the streets and preventing obstructions, may be exercised within the city and the liberties thereof by the City Commissioner of Police on all occasions when a street is thronged or liable to be obstructed. 26. Where the fare now payable by law on hiring any hackney carriage standing on any stand shall not amount to one shilling the driver shall be entitled to charge one shilling. 28. This Act, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, shall be construed as one with the Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police and to the City Police. Short title. METROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE ACT, 1869. An Act for amending the Law relating to Hackney and Stage [11th August, 1869.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to hackney and stage carriages within the metropolitan police district : Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869." 2. The limits of this Act shall be the metropolitan police district, Limits of Act. and the city of London and the liberties thereof. 3. This Act shall not come into operation till the first of January Commenceone thousand eight hundred and seventy. ment of Act. 4. In this Act " stage carriage shall mean any carriage for Definition of the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire in any public stage carstreet, road, or place within the limits of this Act, and in which the riage and passengers or any of them are charged to pay separate and distinct hackney or at the rate of separate and distinct fares for their respective carriage. places or seats therein. 66 Hackney carriage" shall mean any carriage for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire within the limits of this Act, and is not a stage carriage. 66 Prescribed" shall mean "prescribed by order of one of her Meaning of Majesty's principal Secretaries of State." "prescribed." 5. A stage carriage" which on every journey goes to or comes Exemption from some town or place beyond the limits of this Act shall not be deemed to be a carriage plying within the limits of this Act. Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages. of certain carriages from operations of Act. 6. One of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State may from Grant of time to time license to ply for hire within the limits of this Act hackney hackney and stage carriages, to be distinguished in such manner carriage as he may by order prescribe. Any licence in respect of a hackney or stage carriage under this section may be granted at such price, on such conditions, be in such form, be subject to revision or suspension in such events, and generally be dealt with in such manner as the said Secretary of State may by order prescribe, subject as follows: (1.) That a hackney or stage carriage licence shall, if not revoked licences. 7. If any unlicensed hackney or stage carriage plies for hire, the Penalty on owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding use of unfive pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage licensed plies. And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any carriage. stand within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the carriage being an unlicensed carriage. Any hackney or stage carriage plying for hire, and any hackney |