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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 55

Agreement to pay more than the legal fare.

55. No agreement whatever made with the driver, or with any person having or
pretending to have the care of any such hackney carriage, for the payment of
more than the fare allowed by any byelaw made under this or the special Act,
shall be binding on the person making the same; and any such person may,
notwithstanding such agreement, refuse, on discharging such hackney carriage,
to pay any sum beyond the fare allowed as aforesaid; and if any person
actually pay to the driver of any such hackney carriage, whether in pursuance
of any such agreement or otherwise, any sum exceeding the fare to which such
driver was entitled, the person paying the same shall be entitled, on
complaint made against such driver before any justice of the peace, to recover
back the sum paid beyond the proper fare, and moreover such driver shall be
liable to a penalty for such extraction not exceeding the sum of [#2]; and in
default of the repayment by such driver of such excess of fare, or of payment
of the said penalty, such justice shall forthwith commit such driver to
prison, there to remain for any time not exceeding one month, unless the said
excess of fare and the said penalty be sooner paid.

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