CHAR-A-BANC REGULATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924

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CHAR-A-BANC REGULATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 1



1.(1) The provisions of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, (in
this Act referred to as "the principal Act") with respect to hackney carriages
shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section seventy-eight of the
principal Act, apply to every char-a-banc as defined in this section; and
references to hackney carriages, hackney coaches, or carriages and to drivers
thereof, whenever they occur in any of the said provisions, shall be deemed to
include references to every such char-a-banc and the driver and conductor
thereof:

Provided that, in the case of any char-a-banc used solely for the carriage of
passengers from places within the prescribed distance to and from places
outside the prescribed distance, such of the aforesaid provisions of the
principal Act as are specified in the Schedule to this Act shall not apply.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, the expression "char-a-banc" includes every
char-a-banc, omnibus, wagonette, brake, stage coach and other carriage used in
plying or standing for hire or used to carry passengers at separate fares to,
from or in any part of the prescribed distance, but does not include

(a)Any tramcar or tram carriage to which the provisions of the Tramways
(Ireland) Acts, 1860 to 1900, or any Order in Council thereunder, or of any
local Act, apply; or

(b)Any omnibus belonging to, or hired for use by, any railway company for
conveying passengers and their luggage to or from any railway station of that
company, but not used in plying or standing for hire within the
prescribed distance; or

(c)(Except as in this Act expressly provided) any char-a-banc starting from
outside the prescribed distance and bringing passengers within the
prescribed distance, but not used in plying or standing for hire within the
prescribed distance.

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CHAR-A-BANC REGULATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 1