THE STAGE-CARRIAGES ACT, 1861 [Act, No. 16 of 1861]1 [7th July, 1861] PREAMBLE An Act for licensing and regulating Stage-Carriages. Whereas it is expedient to license and to regulate stage-carriages in the Provinces: It is enacted as follows :- ______________________ 1. Short title was given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionEvery carriage drawn by one or more horses which shall ordinarily be used for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire to or from any place in the States, shall, without regard to the form or construction of such carriage, be deemed- to be a stage-carriage within the meaning of this Act. 1[*****] ______________________ 1.Proviso to section 1 which read : "Provided that this Act shall not apply to carriages not ordinarily used for journeys of greater distance than twenty miles" was omitted by the State-Carriage Act (1861) Amendment Act. 1898 (1 of 1898), section 2. which read : "Provided that this Act shall not apply to carriages not ordinarily used for journeys of greater distance than twenty miles" was omitted by the State-Carriage Act (1861) Amendment Act. 1898 (1 of 1898), section 2.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNo carriage shall be used as a stage-carriage unless licensed by a Magistrate or by the1[* * *] Commissioner of Police of a Presidency town. ______________________ 1. The word "Chief was omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 ( 10 of 1914), section 3 and Schedule II.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe Magistrate or1[*] Commissioner of Police to whom the application for a licence of a stage-carriage is made may refuse to license the same, if he shall be of opinion that such stage-carriage is unserviceable or is unsafe or unfit for public accommodation or use. Particulars of license. If a Magistrate or1[*] Commissioner of Police as aforesaid shall grant a license, the license shall set forth the number thereof, the name and residence of the proprietor of the stage-carriage, the place at which his head office is held, the largest number of passengers and the greatest weight of luggage to be carried in or on such carriage, the number of horses by which such carriages is to be drawn, and the name of the place at which such carriage is licensed _______________________ 1. The word "Chief" was omitted by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 ( 10 of 1914), section 3 and Schedule II.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1[For every such license there shall be paid by the proprietor of the stage-carriage the sum of five rupees or such less sum as the2[State Government] may fix, and such license shall be in force, for one year from the date thereof,] When a licensed stage-carriage is transferred to a new proprietor within the year, the name of such new proprietor shall, on application to that effect, be substituted in the license for the name of the former proprietor without any further payment for that year; and every person who appears by the license to be the proprietor, shall be deemed to be such proprietor for all the purposes of this Act. ______________________ 1.Sub stituted for the original paragraph by the Stage-Carriage Act ( 1861 ) Amendment Act, 1898 (1 of 1898), section 3. 2.Sub stituted for "Provincial Government" by A.L.O., 1950.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionOn any stage-carriage being licensed, the proprietor thereof shall cause the number of the license and all the other particulars of the license to be distinctly painted in the English language and character upon a conspicuous part of such stage-carriage.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe proprietor of any licensed stage-carriage who shall let such stage-carriage for hire without the particulars specified in section 3 being painted on such carriage in the manner directed in the last preceding section, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWhoever lets for hire any stage-carriage without the same being licensed as provided by this Act, shall be liable, on a first conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, and on any subsequent conviction, to a fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAny proprietor, or agent of a proprietor, or any driver of a licensed stage-carriage, who knowingly permits such carriage to be drawn by a less number of horses, or who knowingly permits a larger number of passengers, or a greater weight of luggage, to be carried by such stage-carriage than shall be provided by the license, shall be liable on a first conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, and on any subsequent conviction, to a fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. In every case where such stage-carriage shall be proved to have been drawn by a less number of horses, or to have carried a larger number of passengers or a greater weight of luggage, than shall be provided by the license, the proprietor of such carriage shall be held to have knowingly permitted such offence, unless he shall prove that the offence was not committed with his connivance, and that he had taken every reasonable precaution and had made reasonable provision to prevent the commission of the offence.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAny person who shall cruelly beat, ill-treat, override, abuse, torture or cause or procure to be cruelly beaten, ill-treated, overdriven, abused or tortured, any horse employed in drawing or harnessed to any stage-carriage, or who shall harness to or drive in any stage-carriage any horse which from sickness, age, wounds or other cause is unfit to be driven in such stage-carriage, shall for every such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees.
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