Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Publication of authorised fares and diJtances .-(I) The regtstering authority shall cause to be prepared a hst in English and in any other local language of the fares published undt>r section 34 and shall annex to such hst a table showmg the dt~tance between the prmctpal . places to and from which hackney carriages commonly ply. The di>tances so shown shall be p1 esumed to be correct. (2) Copies of such hst 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 authonty, 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 mspection of any Police Officer or of any officer of the local authority duly authonsed m that behalf by the 1 t'gtstering authority or for the mformation of any htrer of, or pas~enger by ':,is carriage, and shall in default, be liable to a fine not exceedmg ten rupees. ( 4) The registering authonty shall also cause an abstract of the fares referred to in sub-section (I) 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, 3/5-7 / 98 (5) Every hackney carriage shall have such a plate affixed and as often as any port1on of the printmg on any such plate becomes indistinct or obliterated, re-affixed, on a consp1cuous part of the carriage tn accordance with the directions of the registering authority. (6) If any hackney carriage stands or phes 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.