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or property or be guilty of any breach of
the peace or of any misconduct or mis-
behaviour tending to occasion a breach of
the peace.

27. No driver of any hackney carriage
    plying for hire or waiting upon any public
    stand shall unless then actually hired by
    some other person or without other reasonable
    cause refuse or neglect to take immediately
    any fare not exceeding the number of
    persons which such carriage is licensed to
    carry nor shall any such driver refuse or
    neglect to carry any reasonable quantity of
    luggage for any person hiring or desiring to
    hire such carriage nor shall he without
    reasonable cause refuse or neglect to drive
    to any place within the limits prescribed by
    this Bye-law nor shall he unless required by
    such hirer drive at a slower speed than six
    miles an hour.

28. No owner or driver of any hackney
    carriage shall exact or demand for the hire
    thereof to any place within the limits here-
    inafter prescribed any greater sum than
    may be properly chargeable under Schedule
    F aforesaid And in the event of any such
    overcharge being paid the Justices or Resi-
    dent Magistrate by whom any charge under
    this section may be adjudicated may in addi-
    tion to imposing the penalty hereinafter
    provided order the owner or driver exacting
    such overcharge to pay the amount thereof
    to the party aggrieved.

29. No owner or driver of any hackney
    carriage having agreed to take any fare at
    any time to or from any place whether
    within or beyond the limits hereinafter pre-
    scribed shall refuse neglect or delay to fulfil
    such agreement.

30. No owner driver or conductor in
    charge of or in attendance upon any car-
    riage shall drive the same furiously care-
    lessly or wantonly or smoke after objection
    made by any passenger or be drunk or use
    any obscene or blasphemous language or
    any threatening abusive or insulting words
    or gestures or otherwise so misbehave him-
    self as to annoy any person riding therein.

31. Except in the case of actual necessity
    or other reasonable cause for deviation the
    driver or conductor of any carriage shall
    keep the same on the near or left side of
    the road and no driver or conductor shall
    interrupt or interfere with any person or
    carriage passing or attempting to pass his
    carriage.

32. Every driver of a hackney carriage
    while engaged in taking up or setting down
    any passenger shall during such taking up
    or setting down place his carriage as near
    as conveniently may be to that side of the
    street at which the taking up or setting
    down is required.

33. The owner of any licensed carriage
    in actual use after sunset and before sun-
    rise shall provide the same with two proper
    lights and the driver shall keep such lights
    alight during all such intermediate time as
    such carriage shall be in use.

34. The driver of any hired hackney car-
    riage shall not allow any person to ride on
    the box or in or upon any part of such car-
    riage without the express previous permis-
    sion of the person hiring the same.

35. No driver or conductor of a borough
    stage carriage shall allow any person beside
    himself to ride upon the steps or in the
    place provided for him nor shall any such
    driver or conductor allow any person to
    smoke inside such carriage or knowingly
    carry in such carriage any person who vio-
    lently noisily or indecently conducts himself
    or otherwise so misbehaves as to annoy any
    other passenger save for such time only as
    to remove such person from the carriage or
    to procure his delivery into proper custody.

36. No driver or conductor of any borough
    stage carriage for the time being employed
    or plying as such shall carry any greater
    number of passengers at one and the same
    time than such carriage is licensed to carry
    or shall refuse or neglect to carry any pas-
    senger not forming with other passengers
    already being in such carriage an excess
    over the number which such carriage is
    licensed to carry and to whose admission no
    reasonable objection is made.

37. Every owner driver or conductor
    offending against any provision of this Bye-
    law shall on conviction be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding £5 to be recovered in a sum-
    mary way before any two Justices of the
    Peace or a Resident Magistrate in the man-
    ner provided by the said Acts.

38. This Bye-law shall apply to all hackney
    carriages and borough stage carriages within
    the meaning of the clause next hereinafter
    contained which shall be used in standing
    or plying for hire within the circumference
    of a circle whose radius shall be of a length
    not exceeding ten miles from the principal
    Post Office of the City of Christchurch.

39. In this Bye-law the word "carriage"
    shall include both a "hackney carriage"
    And a "borough stage carriage" and the
    term "hackney carriage" shall include
    every wheeled carriage whatever may be its
    form or construction used in standing or
    plying for hire for a passenger in any street
    within the said circle not being a stage car-
    riage and not being such borough stage
    carriage as next hereinafter mentioned And
    the term "borough stage carriage" shall
    include every wheeled carriage whatever
    may be its form or construction used in
    standing or plying for hire for passengers
    at separate fares and which shall upon
    every journey go from or come to any place
    within the said circle to or from any other
    place within the said circle And for all pur-
    poses the terms "hackney carriage" or
    "borough stage carriage" (as the case may
    require) shall be deemed sufficient to de-
    scribe a carriage of either of the kinds here-
    inbefore mentioned And the word "owner"
    shall include every person who either alone
    or in partnership with any other person
    shall keep or be concerned otherwise than as