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(1) The registering authority shall, at the time of granting a licence to any driver of hackney carriage, furnish him with a metal badge punched or marked with the number of his licence. (2) Every driver to whom such badge is delivered shall, at all times while acting as driver, wear such badge exposed to view. (3) In case any such driver omits to wear such badge exposed to view while acting as driver he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten rupees. (4) Whenever the number on any badge becomes indistinct or it obliterated during the term of the licence, or whenever any badge is lost or stolen the person to whom the licence relating to any such badge has been granted shall deliver such badge or notify its loss and shall produce such licence to the registering authority, and such person shall then be entitled to have a new licence and badge delivered to him upon payment of the fee specified in section 21. Such new licence shall be in force for the year of registration. (5) Every person licenced under the authority of this Act who uses or wears the badge granted to him after the writing thereon has become indistinct or obliterated shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten rupees.