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CHAR-A-BANC REGULATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 3

Byelaws.

3.(1) Without prejudice to their powers under the principal Act, the [district
council] may from time to time make byelaws for all or any of the following
purposes, that is to say

(a)for the inspection of every char-a-banc at all reasonable times by the
inspector of hackney carriages or other officer appointed for the purpose by
the [district council];

(b)for ensuring the fitness of char-a-bancs for public hire, and for the
cessation of user of a char-a-banc which at any time fails in any way to
comply with the requirements of byelaws respecting such fitness;

(c)for fixing the stands for char-a-bancs, the number of char-a-bancs which
may stand at any point, and the points at which they may stop a longer time
than is necessary for the taking up or setting down of passengers desirous of
entering or leaving the same;

(d)for preventing, within the prescribed distance, the over-crowding of any
char-a-banc;

(e)for preventing, within the prescribed distance, the owner, driver or
conductor of any char-a-banc 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 any such char-a-banc, to the annoyance of such person or
of any other person; and

(f)for regulating generally the conduct of persons employed in or about any
char-a-banc.

(2) Byelaws for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
sub-section (1) of this section may be made by a [district council] so as to
apply to char-a-bancs 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.

(3) Nothing contained in this section or in the principal Act shall be
construed so as to empower the [district council] to fix the site of the stand
of any char-a-banc in any railway station or in any yard adjoining thereto, or
connected therewith, except with the consent of the railway company owning
such site.


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