ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1863.
Regulation of Public Vehicles.
(9.) Or refusing when unemployed to accept hire, without reasonable cause, for so refusing;
(10.) Or demanding more than the authorized fare;
(11.) Or not travelling with reasonable expedition;
(12.) Or leaving his fare before the engagement shall have been completed;
(13.) Or when unemployed allowing his chair to remain in any other place than at one of the stands which the Registrar General is hereinbefore authorized to appoint;
(14.) Or sitting or lying in a public vehicle or chair;
[Sub-sections numbered 15 to 19 added by Ordinance No. 6 of 1882.]
And being convicted thereof, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each and every offence.
13. No person shall let for hire or offer to let for hire by the hour, day, week or job or for any period less than thirty days any horse or other animal to be ridden or driven without having obtained a half-yearly licence for the same from the office of the Registrar General, upon the granting of each of which licences a fee of one dollar in respect of every such horse or other animal so to be licensed to be let shall be payable. Every person who shall let for hire or offer to let for hire any horse or other animal without having such licence as is by this section required shall be subject for each offence to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
14. In case any person having engaged a vehicle or chair or horse shall refuse or neglect to pay the fare for the same forthwith upon the termination of the hiring, or in case any person whatever shall wilfully injure or damage any public vehicle or chair or shall beat, ill-treat or use abusive language towards the driver or bearer of any public vehicle or chair, every such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and to pay and make good to the owner, driver or bearer a proper compensation to be adjudged by a Magistrate, and in every case compensation for the loss of time of owner, driver or bearer and his witnesses; and such compensation shall be recovered by the same means as the penalty.
15. All penalties imposed hereby shall be sued for and recovered under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
16. This Ordinance shall come into operation on and from the first day of October, 1863.
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No person to let horses, &c. to be ridden or driven without a licence.
Penalty on persons engaging vehicle or chair and not paying fare or injuring vehicles or chairs, or ill-treating or abusing driver or bearer.
Mode of recovering penalties.
Commencement of Ordinance.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1883.]
NOTE.-For Scale of Fares under sections 8 & 9, see Gazette 12th & 26th September 1863. For Further Scale of Fares of the 12th September 1882, see Gazette 16th of the same month.