The fund does not believe that the council has issued enough hackney carriage licences.
If an outgoing tenant continues to be a hackney carriage proprietor, and thus requires to retain his licence, he is not obliged to surrender it.
This would reproduce the very difficulty, as the hackney carriage may be drawn by a horse or may be a motor.
In addition, plying for hire other than by a licensed hackney carriage is an offence.
I was briefed by the hackney carriage trade, which is the paragon of private enterprise, never receiving 1p of public subsidy.
Illuminated signs, so long as they are of a kind that would not be confused with a hackney carriage sign, would be perfectly legitimate.
A taxi is defined as a hackney carriage only for the purposes of this subsection.
Furthermore, there are considerable areas in the country where there is no hackney carriage legislation in force.
