Schedules Schedule 5: Private hire vehicles etc. Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c.115)
Paragraph 2 states that the following paragraphs make changes to the taxi licensing regime for London by amending the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (‘the 1869 Act’). The changes made to the 1869 Act are slightly different to those made to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 and the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998. This is because part of the taxi licensing regime in London is governed by secondary legislation rather than primary legislation (the London Cab Order 1934). The intention is that this order will be amended in line with these provisions.
	Paragraph 4 inserts a new section 8A into the 1869 Act which ensures that where someone’s immigration leave is time-limited to less than the statutory length for a driver licence, the licence will be issued for a duration which does not exceed the applicant’s period of leave. Where an applicant’s leave has been extended by virtue of section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 any licence granted will be limited to a period not exceeding six months.
	Where a licence holder’s leave comes to an end (for example, through curtailment) their licence automatically lapses. When this happens the holder must return their licence, any copy, and their driver’s badge to the licensing authority. A person who fails to do so within seven days, without reasonable cause, will be committing an offence and, on summary conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, and in the case of a continuing offence, a daily fine for each day they fail to return the documents after conviction.