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Plates may be seized where the Licence is discontinued or revoked, or where the same are used without Licence.
Penalty for obstructing Officer, 5l. Licences may be revoked in certain Cases.
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XXIV. In any Case where any such Licence shall have been discontinued or revoked, or where any such Licence shall have become null and void, under the Provisions of this Act, and the numbered Plate or Figure in respect of the same shall not have been delivered up to the said Commissioners or their proper Officer, or where any Hackney Carriage, Job or Stage Carriage, Horse, or Cart Plate shall have been recalled by the said Commissioners, and the same shall not have been delivered up as by Law required, and in any Case where any Hackney Carriage or other such Plate shall be in the Possession of or be used by any Person who shall not have a Licence in force relating to the same, it shall be lawful for any Constable to seize and take away any such Plate, wheresoever the same may be found, in order to deliver the same to the said Commissioners; and for the Purpose of seizing and taking away any such Plate, or any forged or counterfeit Plate, it shall be lawful for any such Constable to stop any Carriage or Horse upon which the same may be; and any Person who shall molest, obstruct, or hinder any such Constable in seizing or endeavouring to seize or take away any such Plate shall forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds; and if in any such Case where any such Plate shall be found in the Possession of any Person who shall not have a Licence in force relating to the same it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners that the said Plate is or was so possessed by such Person for the Purpose of being used, or that such licensed Person had parted with the same for the Purpose of being used by any other Person, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, and also in any Case where any Plate shall have been recalled as aforesaid and not delivered up, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall think proper, to revoke the Licence to which such Plate shall relate.
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