Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The registering authority shall cause to be prepared a list in English and in any other local language of the fares published under section 34 and shall annex to such list a table showing the distance between the principal places to and from which hackney carriages commonly ply. The distances so shown shall be presumed to be correct. (2) Copies of such list and table shall be issued to all applicants on payment of a fee of twenty-five naye paise for each copy or of such other sum as the registering authority, subject to the control of the Director, may prescribe. (3) The driver of every hackney carriage standing or plying for hire shall have with him a copy of such list and table and shall on demand produce the same for the inspection of any Police Officer or any officer of the local authority duly authorised in that behalf by the registering authority or for the information of any hirer of, or passenger by his carriage, and shall in default be liable to a fine not exceeding ten rupees. (4) The registering authority shall also cause an abstract of the fares referred to in sub-section (1) to be prepared in English and in any other local language and printed on enamelled plates and such plates shall be issued to applicants on payment of a fee of twenty-five naye paise for each plate. (5) Every hackney carriage shall have such a plate affixed and as often as any portion of the printing on any such plate becomes indistinct or obliterated, re-affixed, on a conspicuous part of the carriage in accordance with the directions of the registering authority. (6) If any hackney carriage stands or plies for hire without such a plate affixed or re-affixed as required by sub-section (5), the owner and driver thereof shall be punishable with fine not exceeding twenty rupees.