It is the exhibition of the vehicle for hire through the agency of the driver which is the essence of the offence of plying for hire, unlicensed.
Citations:
[1959] WLR 781
Statutes:
Metropolitan Police Public Carriage Act 1869 7
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Oddy, Regina (on the Application of) v Bugbugs Ltd Admn 12-Nov-2003
A private prosecutor appealed dismissal of his complaint that the respondent had operated an unlicensed man-powered rickshaw service. The district judge had held that it was not a taxi service. It was, under the 1869 Act a stage carriage and . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Road Traffic
Updated: 26 November 2022; Ref: scu.193390
