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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the provisions relating to Hackney Carriages of the
Town Police Clauses Act, 1847.
[24th June 1889]
Preamble, which recites the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (in this
Act referred to as the principal Act), rep. by SLR 1908

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Town Police Clauses Act, 1889....

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 2
Construction of Act.

2.(1) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act,
and the expression "this Act" in the principal Act shall be
construed to mean the principal Act as amended by this Act.

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 3
Defining ""omnibus.''

3. The term "omnibus", where used in this Act, shall include

Every omnibus, char-a0-banc, wagonette, brake, stage coach, and other
carriage plying or standing for hire by or used to carry passengers
at separate fares to, from, or in any part of the prescribed
distance;

Any tramcar or tram carriage duly licensed... under the provisions
of any local Act of Parliament:

Any carriage starting from and previously hired for the particular
passengers thereby carried at any livery stable yard (within the
prescribed distance) whereat horses are stabled and carriages let for
hire, the said carriage starting from the said stable yard and
being bona8 fide the property of the occupier thereof, and not
standing or plying for hire within the prescribed distance:

Any omnibus belonging to or hired or used by any railway company
for conveying passengers and their luggage to or from any railway
station of that company, and not standing or plying for hire within
the prescribed distance:

Any omnibus starting from outside the prescribed distance, and
bringing passengers within the prescribed distance, and not standing
or plying for hire within the prescribed distance.

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 4
Extending certain provisions of principal Act to omnibuses.

4.(1) The several terms "hackney carriages," "hackney coach,"
"carriages," and "carriage," whenever used in sections thirty-seven,
forty to fifty-two (both inclusive), fifty-four, fifty-eight, and
sixty to sixty-seven (both inclusive) of the principal Act shall,
notwithstanding anything contained in section thirty-eight of that
Act, be deemed to include every omnibus.

(2) The word "driver" or "drivers" when used in any of the said
sections of the principal Act shall be deemed to include every
conductor of any omnibus.

(3) For the purposes of sections fifty-four, fifty-eight, and
sixty-six of the principal Act, the fare, according to the statement
of fares exhibited on any omnibus, shall be deemed to be the fare
allowed by the principal Act or authorised by any byelaw under that
Act.

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 5
Licences may be granted for short periods.

5. Any licence may be granted under the principal Act to continue
in force for such less period than one year as the Commissioners
may think fit, and shall specify in the licence.

TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 6
Byelaws.

6. The Commissioners may from time to time make byelaws for all or
any of the following purposes, that is to say:

For regulating the conduct of the proprietors, drivers, and
conductors of omnibuses plying within the prescribed distance in
their several employments, and determining whether such drivers and
conductors shall wear any and what badges:

For regulating the manner in which the number of each omnibus
corresponding with the number of its licence shall be displayed:

For regulating the number of persons to be carried by such omnibus,
and in what manner such number is to be shown thereon:

For regulating the number and securing the fitness of the animals
to be allowed to draw an omnibus, and for the removal therefrom of
unfit animals:

For securing the fitness of the omnibus and the harness of the
animals drawing the same:

For fixing the stands for omnibuses and the points at which they
may stop a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and
setting down of passengers desirous of entering or leaving the same:

For securing the safe custody and re-delivery of any property
accidentally left in any omnibus, and fixing the charge to be made
in respect thereof:

To provide for the carrying and the lighting of proper lamps for
denoting the direction in which the omnibus is proceeding, and
promoting the safety and convenience of the passengers carried
thereby:

To provide for the exhibition on some conspicuous part of every
omnibus of a statement in legible letters and figures of the fares
to be demanded and received from the persons using or carried for
hire in such omnibus:

To prevent within the prescribed distance

(a)the owner, driver, or conductor of any omnibus, or any other
person on their or his behalf, by touting, calling out, or
otherwise, from importuning any person to use or to be carried for
hire in such omnibus, to the annoyance of such person or of any
other person;

(b)the blowing of or playing upon horns or other musical
instruments, or the ringing of bells, by the driver or conductor of
any omnibus, or by any person travelling on or using any such
omnibus.

Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall empower the
Commissioners to fix the site of the stand of any omnibus in any
railway station, or in any yard adjoining or connected therewith,
except with the consent of the railway company owning such site.