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Commissioners to grant Licences to Proprietors.
Commissioners may refuse or revoke Licences.
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The said Commissioners shall and may grant Licences, under their Hands, upon the Terms and Conditions and in the Manner and Form herein-after mentioned, to keep, ply, use, or let to Hire any Hackney Carriage, Stage Carriage, Job Carriage, Cart, or Job Horse, within the Limits of this Act; and every such Licence shall take Effect from the Date thereof, and shall continue in force so long as the annual Duty payable thereupon under the Provisions of this Act, to be computed from the First Day of January of each Year, shall be paid in manner as herein directed, or until the same shall be voluntarily surrendered by the Party named therein, or otherwise be determined or revoked under the Provisions of this Act; and every such Payment of Duty shall be made at an Office provided for the Purpose by the said Commissioners, in One annual Payment or in Two equal half-yearly Instalments, at a Time or Times or within a Period or Periods to be specified in such Licence as and for such Payment; and such Payment or Payments of the said annual Duty in respect of the Carriage, Cart, or Horse described in the said Licence shall be certified by the Officer duly appointed for that Purpose, whose Certificate thereof shall be received as sufficient Evidence of the Existence or Continuance in force of said Licence: Provided always, that in regard of any such Carriage it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall think proper, to refuse to grant any such Licence, or to revoke any such Licence which may have been theretofore granted, in case it shall appear to the said Commissioners, upon Inspection or otherwise, that the Carriage, in respect of which such Licence shall be applied for or granted, or any Horse or Harness used with any such Carriage, is unserviceable or unsafe, or otherwise unfit for public Accommodation or Use, or that the Person applying for or in possession of any Licence is an unfit Person to hold the same by reason of his having been convicted of any Theft or Felony, or of his having been convicted of any Assault, or of Drunkenness, or of any Breach of the Provisions of this Act, or of the Rules, Orders, or Byelaws made in pursuance thereof; but in all such Cases of Refusal or Revocation the said Commissioners shall endorse upon or annex in Writing to such Licence or the Requisition therefor the Grounds for such Refusal or Revocation: Provided also, that a Licence shall not on any Account be granted to any Person under the Age of Eighteen Years, otherwise than jointly with some Person of full Age who shall be appointed to act as Trustee, Executor, Guardian, or Administrator of the Will or Personal Estate of a Proprietor dying while licensed, and in any such Case the Trustee, Executor, Guardian, or Administrator named in the Licence shall, during the Minority of any Person or Persons named in such Licence with him, be accountable in all respects as if Proprietor of such Carriage, Cart, or Horse: Provided also, that there shall be obtained a separate and distinct Licence for using or letting to Hire every Hackney Carriage, Job Carriage, Stage Carriage, Job Horse, and Cart; but no Licence so obtained shall authorize the Use of any such Carriage or Cart in any Manner contrary to the Import of the Licence appertaining to such Carriage or Cart within the Meaning of this Act: Provided also, that in every Case in which a Licence is to be obtained the proper Duty in respect of the Carriage, Cart, or Horse, to be described therein, shall be first paid, as herein required, and shall be paid in every Year thenceforward, while in force, according to the General Regulations which the said Commissioners of Police shall require to be observed, and which they are by this Act empowered to make for the Purpose, and to prescribe in each Licence: Provided also, that every Licence to be issued under this Act shall be deemed to be an Authority only to the Person or Persons named therein, but that on the Transfer by Sale or otherwise of the Property or Ownership in any Carriage, other than a Hackney Carriage, or in any Job Horse, or Cart, for which a Licence shall be granted, or on the Admission of any Person as a Partner in the Ownership of any such Carriage, Horse, or Cart, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to grant, in lieu of such Licence, to any Person or Persons who shall be named in any Requisition to be addressed to them for the Purpose, a Licence to the like Effect; and that whenever it shall be agreed upon to sell or assign any licensed Hackney Carriage, or to give any Person a Share in the Ownership thereof, a Requisition for a Licence, according to such Agreement or Determination, shall be first sent to the said Commissioners, and if they shall consider the Person so proposed as Purchaser, Assignee, or Partner to be a fit Person to be licensed as a Proprietor of a Hackney Carriage, having regard to the Limitations herein made for the Purpose of preventing improper Persons from obtaining Licences, it shall then, but not otherwise, be lawful to grant, in lieu of the Licence for such Carriage then in force, a Licence to the Person or Persons named in the said Requisition; and in every such Case as aforesaid in which the Duty according to any such Licence shall have been paid for the Year or Period then present, the new Licence shall be granted without Payment of any further Duty for such Year or Period: Provided also, that in all Cases it shall be sufficient in any Proceedings under this Act to name the Proprietor or Proprietors actually licensed at the Time, and on Proof thereof such Proceedings shall extend to and include every Person concerned in the Ownership of any Carriage, Cart, or Horse, in the Use, hiring, or plying of which any Offence or Injury shall be committed.
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