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Advance booking of taxis and hire cars at separate fares.
If:

* (1) all the passengers carried on the occasion in question booked their journeys in advance1; and
* (2) each of them consented, when booking his journey, to sharing the use of the vehicle on that occasion with the others on the basis that a separate fare would be payable by each passenger for his own journey on that occasion,

then a licensed taxi or licensed hire car may be used for the carriage of passengers at separate fares for hire or reward at separate fares without: (a) becoming a public service vehicle for the purposes of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or any related enactment; or (b) ceasing to be subject to the taxi code6 or, as the case may be, the hire car code.

1 Transport Act 1985 s 11(2)(a).2 Ibid s 11(2)(b).3 For the meaning of 'licensed taxi' see para 1116 note 1 ante.4 'Licensed hire car' means a vehicle licensed under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 s 48 (as amended) (see para 1069 ante) or the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 s 7 (as amended): Transport Act 1985 s 13(3) (amended by the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 s 39(1), Sch 1 para 4). Ie otherwise than by virtue of any provision made under the Transport Act 1985 s 13 (as amended): see para 1119 post. For the meaning of 'taxi code' see para 1116 note 10 ante.

Transport Act 1985 s 11(1). 'Hire car code', in relation to a licensed hire car used as mentioned in s 11, means those provisions made by or under any enactment which would apply of it were hired by a single passenger for his exclusive use: s 13(3).

UPDATE
1116–1119 Legislation Applicable to Taxis both in and outside London
As to arrangements for taxi fare concessions, see para 1119 A post.