The M1Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982E+W+S
Marginal Citations
23(1)The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 shall be amended as follows.E+W+S
(2)In section 18(6) (power of Secretary of State to make rules as to procedure in relation to appeals in respect of taxi fares), after the word “may” there shall be inserted the words “by order made by statutory instrument”.
(3)In section 20(1) (regulations relating to taxis and private hire cars and their drivers), at the end there shall be added the words—
“and may provide that such conditions shall be imposed or, as the case may be, shall not be imposed for different areas or classes of areas; and different conditions or classes of conditions may be prescribed in relation to different categories of taxi or private hire car.”
(4)In section 21(2) (offences), after the word “driver” where second occurring there shall be inserted the words—
“(otherwise than in a public place from the person to be conveyed in it, or a person acting on his behalf, for a journey beginning there and then)”.
(5)In section 10 (taxi and private hire car licences), for subsection (3) (refusal to grant taxi licences) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(3)Without prejudice to paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to this Act, the grant of a taxi licence may be refused by a licensing authority for the purpose of limiting the number of taxis in respect of which licences are granted by them if, but only if, they are satisfied that there is no significant demand for the services of taxis in their area which is unmet.”