4:- A hackney carriage shall mean any carriage for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire within the limits of this Act and is neither a stage carriage nor a tram car.

In this Act 'stage carriage' shall mean any carriage for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire in any public street, road or place within the limits of this Act and in which the passengers, or any of them, are charged to pay separate and distinct or at the rate of separate and distinct fares for their respective places or seats therein.

7:-- If any unlicensed hackney . . . carriage plies for hire, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such unlicensed carriage plies. And if any unlicensed hackney carriage is found on any stand within the limits of this Act, the owner of such carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each time it is so found. The driver also shall in every such case be liable to a like penalty unless he proves that he was ignorant of the fact of the carriage being an unlicensed carriage.

Any hackney . . . carriage plying for hire, and any hackney carriage found on any stand without having such distinguishing mark, or being otherwise distinguished in such manner as may for the time being be prescribed . . ., shall be deemed to be an unlicensed carriage.

8:-- No hackney carriage shall ply for hire within the limits of this Act unless under the charge of a driver, having a licence from the Secretary of State. No stage carriage shall ply for hire within the limits of this Act unless the conductor and driver of such carriage have, respectively, licences from the Secretary of State . .