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Do any of our Scottish subscribers know how taxi drivers and Taxi vehicles were regulated before the imposition of the 1982 act?

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JD

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In view of the thread's title I'm tempted to answer "the Battle of Hastings".

However, in brief I think most of the country was governed by the Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts which dated from just before and after the beginning of the twenthieth century.

However, the five burghs of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Greenock were all exempt from the licensing provisions of the Acts, and each had thier own local Act dating from 1909 to 1967.

Apparently the later Act (Edinburgh's) had many similar provisions to the current legislation, but presumably no two were identical. For example, I've heard that "minicabs" in Dundee weren't licensed until the 1982 Act was implemented, and only taxis were regulated (ie a bit like London until relatively recently).

The hotchpotch structure of Scottish local government was streamlined in the 1970s, and the 1982 Act which followed was part of the process of modernisation.