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Taximeters.

Nothing in the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 can require any private hire vehicle1 to be equipped with any form of taximeter but no private hire vehicle so equipped must be used for hire in a controlled district unless such taximeter has been tested and approved by or on behalf of the district council for the district or any other district council by which a vehicle licence in force for the vehicle was issued. Any person who tampers with any seal on any taximeter without lawful excuse, or alters any taximeter with intent to mislead, or knowingly causes or permits a vehicle of which he is the proprietor to be used in contravention of the above provision is guilty of an offence.

Now does that mean the meter type must be approved, or the meter must be tested in each individual PH.

And if the PH tariff is checked by the council does it then become an approved rate.

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IDFIMH

My argument exactly, how can they test it? what if i want to charge by the 9/10ths of a mile? nothing states i have to charge by the mile. And the fare's i charge have nothing ti do with them, but they want they're £12 to test it anyway.

£12.00 for testing it??? thats what the enforsment officer is payed to do already so your being riped off again

Why would PH want meters

At a guess I would say for the same reason the taxi trade use them.

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IDFIMH

Mine's so i get the correct waiting/standing time and the fare's exact for the milage i do.
What do Hac's have their's for?

when i drove ph i would have been lost without a meter.
no waiting charge.