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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 65

Compensation to drivers attending to answer complaints not substantiated.

65. If the driver of any such hackney carriage be summoned or brought before
any justice to answer any complaint or information touching or concerning any
offence alleged to have been committe by such driver against the provisions of
this or the special Act, or any byelaw made thereunder, and such complaint or
information be afterwards withdrawn or quashed or dismissed, or if such driver
be acquitted of the offence charged against him, the said justice, if he think
fit, may order the complainant or informant to pay to the said driver such
compensation for his loss of time in attending the said justice touching or
concerning such complaint or information as to the said justice seems
reasonable; and in default of payment of such compensation the said justice
may commit such complainant or informant to prison for any time not exceeding
one month, unless the same shall be sooner paid.


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