Schedule 2, paragraph 4

This paragraph applies for the purposes of paragraph 3. A “hire-vehicle” is a vehicle hired (by way of a trade) under a hiring agreement to which section 66 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 applies. A “taxi”, in England and Wales, is a vehicle— licensed under section 37 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, licensed under section 6 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, or drawn by one or more persons or animals. A “taxi”, in Scotland, is— a hire car engaged, by arrangements made in a public place between the person to be transported (or a person acting on that person's behalf) and the driver, for a journey starting there and then, or a vehicle drawn by one or more persons or animals.

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