Public Conveyances Act 1854 (SA)

No. 1.

An Act to amend "An Act to provide for the regulation and

licensing of	Public Conveyances, and to present the wanto%
ill &eatmat of	Horses an2 Cattle."

[Assented to, September 14, 1854.1

HEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act, No. 19 of 1853,

W intituled U An Act to provide for the regulatioa and

licensing of Public Conveyances, and to prevent the wanton ill

treatment of Horses and Cattle"-Be it therefore Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. If any vehicle shall ply for hire which shall not have the name Penalty upon the owner of any vehicle

of the owner thereof, and the number of passengers which the same h a ~ n g his name

shall be licensed to carry, painted thereon, as required by the said pdntedthewn.

Act, the owner of such vehicle shall for every such offence forfeit	.I
and pay the sum of Forty Shillings.

2. Every licence issued under the authority of the said Act, or of the 10th of J U I ~ lcences to expire on and

this Act, shall be in force until the tenth day of July, or tenth day	JmWy,
of January, whichever shall next succeed the date of its issue, and no longer, instead of the period of six months limited by the said Act.

3. I t shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police, or other Commi~siomr of Police or other

Officer appointed by the Governor, to grant a licence as required by ots,	licenu
the said Act, to the owner of any vehicle of a novel or superior vehicles.

construction, to carry auch a number of passengers as, upon in-

1 spection thereof, the same may appear ualified and able to carry

without danger to the passengers or crue 1 ty to the horses, although the number mentioned in such licence may exceed the number

A limited

limited by the mid Act, and to charge and receive for every suEh

licence the sum of Two Shillings for every passenger which the

vehicle therein referred to may be licensed to carry.

No vehicle to be li- 4.

No licence shall be grantad to any vehicle, which shall not have been licensed prior to the first day of January next, under the sdd Act, unless it &all appear on inspection that there is a space of, a t least, sixteen inches in width in the clear for every passenger licensed to be carried thereby; and every vehicle which may be Licensed shall he brought to the said Commissioner of Police or other Officer for inspection upon every renewal of the licence granted in respect thereof.

censed unlese of

proper dimensions.

Appealfrom decision

of Comrniesioner of

5. In the event of the refusal of the Commissioner of Police or other Officer, as aforesaid, to issue a licence under the said Act for any vehicle, it shall be lawful for the owner of such vehicle to ap- peal from such refusal to any two .Justices of the Peace of the said Province, one thereof being a Special Magistrate, upon giving not less than seven days' notice, of such appeal, to the said Commis- sioner of Police or other Officer, as aforesaid; and it shall be law- ful for such two, Justices to inquire into the matter of such appeal, and to inspect the vehicle so ref~~sed to be licensed, and, a t their discretion, to confirm such refusal or to direct a licence to be issued under the authority of the said Act, in which event, the said Com- missioner of Police or other Officer shall issue a licence accordingly.

Police,

Luggsge may be 6. If a'ny vehicle licensed under the said Act, or this Act, shall

in the plWe upon any occasion carry less than the number of passengers which

of paeeenger s.

the same is licensed to carrv. it shall be lawful for such vehicle to

carry luggage not exceedin6 'in weight one hundred and fifty pounds

in the place of every passenger authorized by the licence to bc

carried, but who s h d not upon such occasion be carried.

7. This Act and the said recited No. 19 of 185 3, s h d be

his act and NO. IQ

of 1853 be read construed as one Act.

as one Act.

bdalaide: Printed by anthoriQ by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, VViotoria-square.