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Equipment.
Sollclting,
Standing and plying for bire.
Hiring,
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22. When a taxi is standing or plying for hire there shall be dis- played so as to be clearly visible to any passenger travelling in the taxi and legible by him-
(a) a plate or plates showing the registration mark of the taxi, the number of passengers permitted to travel in the taxi and the designation of the taxi in accordance with the provisions of regulation 7;
(b) a card or other device exhibiting, to the satisfaction of the Authority, a photograph of the driver, his full name in English and in Chinese characters and the number of bis driving licence: and
(c) a table showing the scale of fares chargeable in respect of the
use of the taxi,
23. No driver or person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the driver of a taxi standing of plying for hire shall by speaking, making any noise, sounding any instrument or by any other means attract or endeavour to attract any person in order to induce such person to make use of the taxi.
24. No driver shall ply or stand for hire on a road except-
(a) when the taxi is on a taxi stand; or
(b) when hailed by an intending passenger while proceeding, after
the conclusion of a hire, to a taxi stand; or
(c) when hailed by an intending passenger while proceeding to or
from a place where the taxi is garaged.
25. (1) The driver of each of the first two taxis on a taxi stand shall sit in or stand beside his taxi and shall be ready to be hired al once by any person.
(2) The driver of every taxi on a taxi stand shall move up his taxi as vacancies occur.
(3) If a person wishes to engage a taxi, the driver of the first taxi on the taxi stand shall accept the hire and, unless the drivers of all the taxis ahead of him in the taxi stand have either been hired or are not in or near their taxis, the driver of a taxi shall not accept a hire:
Provided that where both taxis licensed for the carriage of three passengers and taxis licensed for the carriage of more than three pas- sengers are in the same taxi stand and such person wishes to engage taxi licensed for the carriage of more than three passengers the provi sions of this paragraph shall apply only to taxis licensed to carry more than three passengers.
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26. The driver shall not without reasonable excuse-
(a) refuse or neglect to drive the taxi to any place indicated by
the hirer:
(b) refuse or neglect to carry such number of passengera, not exceeding the number specified in the vehicle licence in respect of the taxi, as he may be required to carry by the hirer; (c) when hired to drive to a specified destination, drive to such destination other than by the most direct practicable route;
(d) at the termination of a hiring, fail to return forthwith by the shortest practicable route either to a taxi stand or to the garage provided for the taxi: or
Obligation of taxi driver.
(e) when his taxi is hired, permit any person other than the hirer
to enter the taxi without the consent of the hirer.
27, (1) The scales of fares for the hiring of taxis shall be as set Scale of forth in the Third Schedule.
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Third
(2) No registered owner or driver of a taxi shall charge for the Schedule. hiring of the taxi a fare exceeding the appropriate scale of fares set forth in the Third Schedule.
(3) Light baggage, that is to say, light suitcases, parcels, hat boxes, attache cases and similar articles may be carried inside the taxi and if so carried will be carried free of charge.
28. No person shall-
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Offences by birers of
(a) hire a taxi, knowing or having reason to believe that he cannot taxia. pay the legal charge and with intent to avoid payment of the legal charge; or
(b) fraudulently endeavour to avoid payment of a legal charge law-
fully due from him; or
(c) having failed or refused to pay the charge demanded by the driver of a taxi, either refuse to give to the driver of the taxi an address at which he can be found or give with intent to deceive, a false address.
29. (1) A driver shall-
Conduct of driver in
(a) not carry on the taxi a number of passengers in excess of the relation to
number shown in the vehicle licence in respect of the taxi:
(8) not carry on the taxi any goods other than hand baggage and personal effects except that goods up to a weight not exceeding the weight stipulated in the vehicle licence in respect of the taxi may be carried on a properly constructed carrier of a design and construction previously approved of by the Author- ity or, in the case of a dual purpose vehicle registered for use
taxi.