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New Dublin Plates to be delivered in lieu of those defaced or lost.
Penalty for not delivering up lost Plate when found, or for using a Plate after it has been defaced, 40s.
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XVIII. Whenever the Number of any Dublin Plate shall become obliterated or defaced, so that the same shall not be distinctly visible and legible, and also whenever any such Plate shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners to have been lost or mislaid, the Person to whom the Licence relating to any such Plate shall have been granted shall surrender and deliver up such Plate (if he shall have the same in his Possession), and shall produce such Licence to the said Commissioners or their proper Officer, for Endorsement, and such Person shall then be entitled to have a new Plate delivered to him in lieu of the Plate so delivered up, or lost or mislaid, upon the Payment of the Sum of One Shilling for each Plate, and such new Plate may bear the same or a different Number, as to the said Commissioners may seem fit; and in all Cases, in order to allow Time for the Manufacture or procuring of any Dublin Plate, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, in their Discretion, or their proper Officer, on the Payment of the said Sum, and according to the Exigency of the Case, to grant a printed or written Permission to the Person or Persons named in the Licence relating to such Dublin Plate to use or ply for Hire without a Dublin Plate being affixed thereto, and for such Time as the said Commissioners shall deem requisite, any Carriage, Cart, or Job Horse for which such Plate shall be required: Provided always, that if any Plate which shall have been proved as aforesaid or represented to have been lost or mislaid shall afterwards be found, the same shall forthwith be delivered up to the said Commissioners or their proper Officer; and if any Person into whose Possession any such Plate as last aforesaid shall be or come shall refuse or neglect for the Space of Three Days to deliver up the same to the said Commissioners or their proper Officer, or if any Person licensed under the Authority of this Act shall use the Plate granted to him after the Number thereon shall be in any Manner obliterated, defaced, or obscured, so that the same shall not be distinctly visible and legible, he shall for every such Offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, and it shall be lawful for any Constable or Police Officer, without Warrant, to seize and take away any such Plate, in order that the same may be produced in Evidence against such Offender, or be disposed of as the said Commissioners shall direct.
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