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I was looking through some old statutory instruments dating as far back to the 19th century and I was wondering how many of the London cabbies have seen this cab drivers licensing form from 1934?
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SCHEDULE DForm of Cab-Driver's Licence Article 27

*Motor (or Horse) Cab-Driver's Licence No ..........

**(Limited to .................... Area)

I, having been appointed by the Secretary of State to grant cab-drivers' licences under the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, hereby license .................... residing at .................... to drive *motor (or horse) cabs ***....................

This licence is granted subject to compliance by the licensee with the provisions of

(a) the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, and the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act 1907, and any Order made thereunder by the Secretary of State relating to *motor (or horse) cab-drivers, including any regulations contained in such Order, and

(b) the Acts relating to hackney carriages in force at the time of the commencement of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869,

**(and subject to the condition that the holder of the licence shall not ply for hire with a cab or permit the cab to be hired in any part of the Metropolitan Police District or the City of London except ...............................)

This licence shall have effect as from.....and shall remain in force ****(for three years from that date) or ****(until the .............................. , 193..........) unless sooner revoked or suspended.

[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis].

Dated .......... day of .................... 193..........

Date Memorandum of Change of address Entered at Office of Commissioner of Police


Photograph of Licensee (to be affixed before issue of licence)

Signature of Licensee.

*the licence shall specify either motor cab or horse cab.

**The words in square brackets are to be omitted or struck out unless the Commissioner of Police wishes to limit the area within which the driver may be permitted to ply for hire with a cab.

***Here may be inserted such words as the Commissioner of Police may think fit for limiting the types of cabs which the licensee is permitted to drive.

****The second form of words will be used where the Commissioner of Police directs that the licence shall be in force for less than three years in pursuance of the proviso to section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1934.

*****Entries as required by section 8 of the London Hackney Carriages Act 1843, are to be made in the columns below by whom the licensee is employed:—

Name of Cab-owner Address of Cab-owner Date when Licensee entered Cab-owner's service Date of his leaving Cab-owner's service

*****This paragraph and the subjoined columns are not to be included in the licensee's copy of the licence.
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NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 1 January 1935: see art 57.

Amendment

Words “Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis” in square brackets substituted by SI 1955/1853, art 1.

Modification

Modified by the Local Services (Operation by Taxis) (London) Regulations 1986, SI 1986/566, regs 3, 4, Table.

Any reference to the Assistant Commissioner, the Commissioner of Police or the Secretary of State shall be treated as a reference to Transport for London, by virtue of the London Cab Order 1934 (Modification) Order 2000, SI 2000/1666, art 3(2).

And a cab license looked like this.
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SCHEDULE CForm of Cab Licence Article 14

*Motor (or Horse) Cab Licence

Cab No ....................

I, having been appointed by the Secretary of State to grant cab licences under the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, hereby grant to** .............................. a Cab Licence in respect of the *Motor (or Horse) Cab distinguished by the number ................... for that Cab to ply for hire within the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London.

And I certify that the number of persons which the Cab is licensed to carry is .......... inside ***(and .......... outside) ***(and that the Cab is licensed to carry luggage on the roof.)

This licence is granted subject to compliance by the licensee with the provisions of

(a) the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, and the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act 1907, and any Order relating to *Motor (or Horse) Cabs made thereunder by the Secretary of State, including the conditions subject to which the licence is granted in pursuance of such Order and any regulations contained in such Order, and

(b) the Acts relating to hackney carriages in force at the time of the commencement of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869.

. . .

This licence shall remain in force for one year from the date hereof unless sooner revoked or suspended.

[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis].

Dated .......... day of .................... 193..........

*The licence shall specify either motor cab or horse cab, as the case may be.

**Where a licensee is himself the owner or part owner of the cab, his name and address are to be inserted here, with the words “on behalf of ............................. ”, as necessary. Where the owner is a firm or company, the name of the licensee shall be inserted and the name and address of the firm or company, with the licensee's position therein, e.g., “A.B., Senior Partner of the firm of B. and C. (or Secretary of X.Y. & Co. Ltd.), on behalf of that firm (or company), of (insert address of firm or company).”

***The words in square brackets are to be omitted or struck out if inapplicable or inappropriate.
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