76 As to public vehicles taken at railway stations. E+W
In any area within which the provisions of the M1Town Police Clauses Act 1847, with respect to hackney carriages are in force, those provisions and any byelaws of the local authority with respect to hackney carriages shall be as fully applicable in all respects to hackney carriages standing or plying for hire at any railway station or railway premises within such area, as if such railway station or railway premises were a stand for hackney carriages or a street:
Provided that—
(a)the provisions of this section shall not apply to any vehicle belonging to or used by any railway company for the purpose of carrying passengers and their luggage to or from any of their railway stations or railway premises, or to the driver or conductor of such vehicle;
(b)Nothing in this section shall empower the local authority to fix the site of the stand or starting place of any hackney carriage in any railway station or railway premises, or in any yard belonging to a railway company, except with the consent of that company.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power to extend or exclude section 76 conferred by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 25; excluded (Greater London) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 26 and S.I. 1973/686, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
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