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Statutory Instruments
METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE DISTRICTS
CABS
Made
31st March 1999
Coming into force
24th April 1999
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869(1), section 1 of the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act 1907(2) and section 1 of the London Cab Act 1968(3), hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the London Cab Order 1999 and shall come into force on 24th April 1999.
2. The London Cab Order 1934(4) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3. For paragraph 40 (scales of fares excluding extras) there shall be substituted the following-�
"40.-(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the fare payable for the hiring of a motor cab shall be according to the following scale-�
(a)a hiring charge of £1.00, and
(b)in respect of any part of the hiring during which the cab travels at a speed exceeding 10.21 miles an hour, at the rate of 20p for 219 metres or, if the fare shown on the taximeter is £10.00 or more, at the rate of 20p for 146 metres, and
(c)in respect of any part of the hiring during which the cab is stationary or travels at a speed not exceeding 10.21 miles an hour, at the rate of 20p for 48 seconds or, if the fare shown on the taximeter is £10.00 or more, at the rate of 20p for 32 seconds.
(2) In any case where the sum arrived at in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above-�
(a)is less than £1.40, the fare payable shall be £1.40; or
(b)exceeds £1.40 but is not a multiple of 20p, the fare payable shall be the sum so arrived at rounded up to the next highest multiple of 20p."
4.-(1) Paragraph 41(2)(a) (which prescribes extra charges for the hiring of a motor cab on public holidays, at weekends and at night) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In item (i), for "£2" there shall be substituted "£3".
(3) In items (ii), (iii) and (iiiA), for "60p" there shall be substituted "90p".
(4) In item (iv), for "40p" there shall be substituted "60p".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
31st March 1999
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the fares payable for the hiring of a motor cab licensed in the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London in respect of all journeys beginning and ending there. It also increases certain extra charges payable for hirings on public holidays, at weekends and at night.
