| Comment | For the avoidance of doubt
Offences.
(1)If any person—
(a)operates, or permits the operation of, a taxi within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed, or
(b)picks up passengers in, or permits passengers to be picked up by, a private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed,
that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding [F44level 4 on the standard scale].
(2)Subsection (1) above does not apply to the operation of a taxi or private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation or its driver is not licensed if the request for its hiring was received by its driver [F45(otherwise than in a public place from the person to be conveyed in it, or a person acting on his behalf, for a journey beginning there and then)] whilst—
(a)in the area or in that part thereof in respect of which its operation and its driver are licensed;
(b)engaged on hire on a journey which began in that area or part or will end there; or
(c)returning to that area or part immediately following completion of a journey on hire. |
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