Taxi licensing

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Practice notes

Taxi licensing

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Practice notes
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This Practice Note summarises the law in relation to taxi licensing. In particular, it considers licensing Requirements for ‘hackney carriages’ and ‘private hire vehicles’ (PHVs) which are generally hired as a whole, ie not at separate fares for each passenger. This Practice Note does not consider vehicles that are hired at separate fares.

Licensing Authority

The licensing authority for both hackney carriages and PHVs is the District council, or in areas where there is no district council, a metropolitan council, Unitary authority and in Wales a county council or county borough council.

Hackney carriage licensing was extended throughout England and Wales (outside of London) by section 15 of the Transport Act 1985 (TA 1985), and section 76 of the Public Health Act 1925 (PHA 1925) extended hackney carriage licensing to railway land.

PHVs may only be licensed following adoption of Part II of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (LG(MP)A 1976) in an area where hackney carriage licensing already applied under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (TPCA 1847). Local authorities would be well advised to check

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