Hackney Carriages, Metropolis Act 1838

London Hackney Carriages Act 1850
London Hackney Carriages Act 1850
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other Provisions in regard to the consolidated Offices.
Citation	13 & 14 Vict. c. 7
Dates
Royal assent	25 March 1850
Other legislation
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1875
Text of statute as originally enacted

Hackney Carriages,
Metropolis Act 1838^[a]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for the better Regulation of Hackney Carriages, and of Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and of Wagons, Carts, and Drays, used in and near the Metropolis, and of the Drivers and Attendants thereof.
Citation	1 & 2 Vict. c. 79
Dates
Royal assent	10 August 1838
Status: Repealed

The Hackney Carriages, Metropolis Act 1838^[a] (1 & 2 Vict. c. 79) regulated and set up a licensing system for hackney carriages in London, namely the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages

It was updated by the London Hackney Carriages Act 1850,^[1]^[b] (13 & 14 Vict. c. 7) granted royal assent on 25 March 1850 and taking effect from 5 April 1850. That abolished the office of Registrar and instead added his duties to those of the Commissioners (later Commissioner) of Police for the Metropolis, head of the Metropolitan Police (later expanded or delegated to an Assistant Commissioner by the Metropolitan Police Act 1856), effectively creating the Public Carriage Office, which remained within the Metropolitan Police until 2000 when it was taken over by Transport for London.

The 1850 Act also provided retiring allowances for clerks and officers who lost their job due to the abolition of the office of Registrar, enabled the Commissioners to set up taxi ranks or "standings", repealed any extant provisions on "standings" in Acts prior to the London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 and maintained the Bloomsbury Square Act 1806's ban on hackney coaches in or near Bloomsbury Square.^[c]

Notes

^ ^a ^b The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
^ Full title - An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other Provisions in regard to the consolidated Offices (1850, c.7).
^ "Bloomsbury Square Act - Full text" (PDF).

References

^ "Act as enacted". Legislation.gov.

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 & 2 Victoriæ. 1838. Printed by Her Majesty's Printers. London. 1838. Pages 856 to 866 Digitised copy from Google Books.
The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for the year 1839. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1839.