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Conduct of passengers.
If, with respect to a cab, any person:
(1) hires a cab, knowing or having reason to believe that he cannot pay the lawful fare, or with intent to avoid payment of the lawful fare2; or
(2) fraudulently endeavours to avoid payment of a fare lawfully due from him3; or
(3) having failed or refused to pay a fare lawfully due from him, either refuses to give the driver an address at which he can be found or, with intent to deceive, gives a false address, he is guilty of an offence.
If any person refuses or omits to pay the driver of any hackney carriage the sum justly due to him for the hire of the hackney carriage, or if any person defaces or in any manner injures any such hackney carriage, it is lawful for any justice of the peace, upon complaint made to him, to grant a summons, or, if it appears to him necessary, a warrant, for bringing before him or any other justice, to award reasonable satisfaction to the party so complaining of his fare or for his damages and costs, and also a reasonable compensation for the loss of his time in attending to make and establish the complaint6.
1 'Cab' means an hackney carriage within the meaning of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869: London Cab Act 1896 s 3. For the meaning of 'hackney carriage see para 1055 ante.
2 Ibid s 1(a).
3 Ibid s 1(b).
4 Ibid s 1(c).
5 Ibid s 1. Such a person is liable on summary conviction to pay, in addition to the lawful fare, a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, or, in the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 14 days, and the whole or any part of any fine imposed may be applied in compensation to the driver: s 1 (amended by virtue of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 ss 37, 38, 46). As to the standard scale see para 29 note 3 ante.
6 London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 s 41 (amended by the Statute Law Revision (No 2) Act 1988; and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976).
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