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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 38

What vehicles to be deemed hackney carriages.

38. Every wheeled carriage, whatever may be its form or construction, used in
standing or plying for hire in any street within the prescribed distance, and
every carriage standing upon any street within the prescribed distances,
having thereon any numbered plate required by this or the special Act to be
fixed upon a hackney carriage, or having thereon any plate resembling or
intended to resemble any such plate as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be a
hackney carriage within the meaning of this Act; and in all proceedings at law
or otherwise the term "hackney carriage" shall be sufficient to describe any
such carriage: Provided always, that no stage coach used for the purpose of
standing or plying for passengers to be carried for hire at separate fares,
and duly licensed for that purpose, and having thereon the proper numbered
plates required by law to be placed on such stage coaches, shall be deemed to
be a hackney carriage within the meaning of this Act.

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