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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 48

Proprietor to retain licences of drivers, and to produce the same before justices on complaint.

48. In every case in which the proprietor of any such hackney carriage permits
or employs any licensed person to act as the driver thereof, such proprietor
shall cause to be delivered to him, and shall retain in his possession, the
licence of such driver, while such driver remains in his employ; and in all
cases of complaint, where the proprietor of a hackney carriage is summoned to
attend before a justice, or to produce the driver, the proprietor so summoned
shall also produce the licence of such driver, if he be then in his employ;
and if any driver complained of be adjudged guilty of the offence alleged
against him, such justice shall make an endorsement upon the licence of such
driver, stating the nature of the offence and the amount of the penalty
inflicted; and if any such proprietor neglect to have delivered to him and to
retain in his possession the licence of any driver while such driver remains
in his employ, or if he refuse or neglect to produce such licence as
aforesaid, such proprietor shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty
not exceeding [#2].

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