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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
140. The provisions of the Town Police Clauses Acts 1847 and 1889 and the byelaws of the Corporation with respect to public vehicles shall be as fully applicable in all respects to public vehicles within the borough conveying passengers to or from any railway station within the borough as if such railway station were a public stand for public vehicles.
141. An occasional licence for a public vehicle may be granted by the Corporation to be in force for such day or days or other period less than one year as may be specified in the licence.
142. Every person. who fraudulently or with intent to deceive does any of the following things (namely) :-
(l.) Affixes or places on any carriage or cart any figure or number to resemble any figure or number appointed by the Corporation to be affixed to any hackney carriage ;
(2.) Affixes or carries on his person any badge figure or number to resemble any badge figure or number appointed by the Corporation to be carried by a licensed driver or conductor;
(3.) Alters or erases whilst any licence granted by the Corporation in respect of any vehicle is in force any number painted thereon or affixed thereto by direction of the Corporation or any officer of the Corporation authorised in that behalf ;
(4.) Affixes or carries on his person any badge figure or number assigned by the Corporation or by any duly authorised officer of the Corporation to any other person;
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
143. The Corporation may from time to time make byelaws for fixing the stand on which public vehicles of different classes and descriptions shall alone stand and for prohibiting a public vehicle of one class or description from using a stand appointed for public vehicles of another class or description.
144. Nothing in the sections of this Act whereof the marginal notes are " As to public vehicles taken at railway stations " and " Byelaws for fixing stands for public vehicles " shall extend to or empower the Corporation in any way to interfere with any vehicle belonging to or hired or used by any railway company for conveying passengers and their luggage to or from any railway station or to or
with the drivers or conductors thereof unless such vehicle plies for hire in like manner as an ordinary public vehicle or empower the Corporation to fix the site of the stand or starting place of any vehicle in any railway station or in any yard belonging to a railway company except with the consent of the railway company owning such station or yard.
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