7 Penalty on use of unlicensed carriages. U.K.
If any unlicensed hackney . . . F1 carriage plies for hire, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage plies. And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any stand within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the carriage being an unlicensed carriage.
Any hackney . . . F1 carriage plying for hire, and any hackney carriage found on any stand without having such distinguishing mark, or being otherwise distinguished in such manner as may for the time being be prescribed F2. . ., shall be deemed to be an unlicensed carriage.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XVII
F2Words in s. 7 repealed (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 253, 423, Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 5(4), Sch. 34 Pt. V (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 3
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 7: by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80, SIF 39:1), Sch. 3 Pt. I it was provided that s. 7 should have effect as if the maximum fine which might be imposed on summary conviction for any offence specified in s. 7 were a fine not exceeding £20 for a first offence and £50 for a second or subsequent offence and, as regards s. 7 as so amended, Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 35 (in relation to liability on first and subsequent convictions), 39(2) (and Sch. 3) (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale) apply