
1 
This Order may be cited as the London Cab Order 1972 and shall come into operation on 7th August 1972.
2 
The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
In relation to hirings in respect of journeys which begin at Heathrow Airport, London, for the reference to the distance of six miles in section 7 and paragraph (2) of section 17 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (being the length of a journey which the driver of a cab is by law obliged to undertake) there shall be substituted a reference to the distance of twenty miles.
R. Maudling
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
Whitehall
12th July, 1972