TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889

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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.

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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1889 - SECT 6