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Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
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Issue of driver’s badges etc.
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24.—(1) The Department shall issue a badge and such other evidence of identification as it considers appropriate to each person to whom it has granted a taxi driver’s licence.
(2) The Department may prescribe the form of badges and other evidence of identification issued under this section.
(3) A person issued with such a badge and other evidence of identification shall, at all times when acting in accordance with his taxi driver’s licence, wear the badge and display the other evidence of identification in such position and manner as to be plainly and distinctly visible or in such position and manner as may be prescribed.
(4) The Department may by notice exempt a person from the requirement under subsection (3) or under any provision of regulations made under subsection (3), when the person is the driver of a taxi being used to provide a service specified in the notice, if the Department considers it inappropriate (having regard to that service) to require the badge to be worn or the other evidence of identification to be displayed.
(5) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes subsection (3) or any provision of regulations made under this section is guilty of an offence.
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