NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,
WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XII.] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1865. [No. XX.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 24, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following By-Law made by the City Council.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

BY-LAW No. 2, for LICENSING HACKNEY CARRIAGES and the OWNERS DRIVERS and CONDUCTORS thereof.

A By-Law for licensing and regulating hackney carriages and the owners drivers and conductors thereof plying for hire within the City of Christchurch and within the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof.

Whereas by an Ordinance of the Provincial Council of Canterbury passed in the Twenty-eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled “The Hackney Carriage Ordinance 1864” power is given to the Christchurch City Council from time to time to make by-laws for regulating and licensing hackney carriages and the owners drivers and conductors thereof plying for hire within the said City and within eight miles from the limits thereof and for other purposes therein specified and whereas it is expedient to make the following by-laws in pursuance of such power be it therefore ordered by the Council of the said City of Christchurch.

Carriages must not ply without license.

1. No hackney carriage of any description whatsoever shall ply for hire within the said City of Christchurch or within the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof until and unless the same be duly licensed by the Council of the said City.

Requisitions for license.

2. Before any license for a hackney carriage shall be granted a requisition for the same shall be made at the office of the Town Clerk by the owner or owners thereof and assigned by him or them in the form contained in the schedule hereto annexed marked A.

No improper person or unfit carriage to be licensed.

3. No license shall be granted in respect of any carriage to any person either as owner driver or conductor unless he shall satisfy the said Council that he is a fit person to be entrusted with the same and is of good fame and character nor in respect of any carriage which in the opinion of the said Council shall be unsafe or in bad repair or otherwise unfit for the accommodation and conveyance of passengers therein nor until and unless the number of such carriage be painted thereon outside on the panel of each door of such carriage or in such other place or places and in such manner as the said Council by any of their officers may direct.

Form and duration of license.

4. Licenses for hackney carriages shall be in the form contained in the schedule hereto annexed marked B, and shall be granted for a period of one year from the date of issue, and may be renewed annually upon payment of the prescribed fee and compliance with the conditions hereinbefore stated.

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