Lawgist3Power to refuse license
The Magistrate or 1*** Commissioner of Police to whom the application for a license of a stage-carriage is made may refuse to license the same, if he shall be of opinion that such stage-carriage is unserviceable or is unsafe or unfit for public accommodation or use.
Particulars of license.--If a Magistrate or 1*** Commissioner of Police as aforesaid shall grant a license, the license shall set forth the number thereof, the name and residence of the proprietor of the stage-carriage, the place at which his head office is held, the largest number of passengers and the greatest weight of luggage to be carried in or on such carriage, the number of horses by which such carriage is to be drawn, and the name of the place at which such carriage is licensed.
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1. The word Chief rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
- 1 Definition of stage-carriage
- 2 Carriages to be licensed
- 3 Power to refuse license
- 4 Charge for and duration of license
- 5 Particulars to be painted on conspicuous part of carriage
- 6 Penalty for letting carriage without having particulars painted
- 7 Penalty for letting for hire unlicensed carriage
- 8 Penalty for allowing carriage to be drawn by fewer animals or more passengers, etc., to be carried than provided by license
- 9 Penalty for ill-treating animals
- 10 Revocation of license
- 11 Penalty for not conforming to provisions of section 5
- 12 Penalty for misconduct on part of drivers
- 13 Penalty when recoverable from proprietor
- 14 Issue of summons
- 15 Adjudication of penalties
- 16 Recovery of penalties, etc
- 17 Offender may be apprehended and detained in custody until return of warrant of distress
- 18 Imprisonment of offender if distress not sufficient
- 19 [Repealed.]
- 20 Jurisdiction
- 20A Power to make rules
- 21 Interpretation-clause
- 22 Extent of Act
- 23 Power to State Government to exempt
