Dublin Amended Carriage Act, 1854

Licences to be an Authority only to Persons named therein.

III. Every Licence to be issued under this Act shall be deemed to be an Authority only to the Person or Persons named therein; but on the Transfer, by Sale or otherwise, of the Property or Ownership in any Carriage (other than a Hackney Carriage), or in any Cabriolet, Job Horse, or Cart, for which a Licence shall be granted, or on the Admission of any Person as a Partner in the Ownership of any such Carriage, Horse, or Cart, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners or their authorized Officer as aforesaid to grant, in lieu of such Licence, to any Person or Persons who shall be named in any Requisition to be addressed to them for the Purpose, a Licence to the like Effect; and on the Transfer, by Sale, Assignment, Bequest of, or Change of Property in any Manner whatsoever in any Hackney Carriage, or upon the Admission of any Person to a Share in the Ownership thereof, a Requisition for a Licence, according to the Nature of the Case, shall be first sent to the said Commissioners, and if they shall consider the Person so proposed or named as Purchaser, Assignee, Legatee, or Partner to be a fit Person to be licensed as a Proprietor of a Hackney Carriage, having regard to the Limitations herein made for the Purpose of preventing improper Persons from obtaining Licences, it shall then, but not otherwise, be lawful to grant, in lieu of the Licence for such Carriage or Cabriolet then in force, a Licence to the Person named in the said Requisition; and for every such Licence so granted upon the Sale or Assignment, Bequest of, or Change in the Property of any licensed Hackney Carriage, or upon the Admission of any Person to a Share in the Ownership thereof, the proper Fee or Sums appropriated thereto shall be first paid as herein-after required; and in every such Case as aforesaid, in which the annual Duty according to any such Licence shall have been paid for the Year or Period then present, the new Licence shall be granted without Payment of any further Duty for such Year or Period: Provided also, that in all Cases it shall be sufficient in any Proceedings under this Act to name the Proprietor or Proprietors actually licensed at the Time, and on Proof thereof such Proceedings shall extend to and include every Person concerned in the Ownership of any Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Horse in the Use, hiring, or plying of which any Offence or Injury shall be committed; and it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the Divisional Justices of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, upon Complaint made to him in that Behalf, to inquire into all and every Matter and Thing respecting the Misconduct of any Proprietor, Part Proprietor, Driver, Conductor, or other Person belonging to or in any Manner connected with any such licensed Carriage, Cabriolet, Cart, or Job Horse, and to correct the same as he shall think proper, whether or not a Remedy may have been provided against such Misconduct by the said Act, or by the Rules, Orders, Regulations, or Byelaws made pursuant thereto.