Section 75: Public service vehicles

75. Public service vehicles (1) Public service vehicles shall, for the purpose of this Part and any regulations made under it, be divided into— (a) buses, being motor vehicles having a seating capacity for 7 or more passengers and carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares; (b) contract buses, being motor vehicles having a seating capacity for 7 or more passengers and carrying passengers for hire or reward under a contract, express or implied, for the use of a vehicle as a whole; (c) taxis, being motor vehicles having a seating capacity for not more than 6 passengers and carrying passengers and their effects for hire or reward whether under a contract, express or implied, for the use of the vehicle as a whole or at separate fares; and (d) contract cars, being motor vehicles constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and having a seating capacity for not more than 6 persons, excluding the driver, and let out for hire or reward for a period of not less than 6 consecutive hours under a contract in writing with the condition, express or implied, that the vehicle shall be used for the carriage of passengers and their effects otherwise than at separate fares and be driven by the hirer or any other person authorised by him. (2) Where persons are carried in a motor vehicle, other than a bus or taxi, for a journey in consideration of separate payments made by them, whether to the owner of the vehicle or to any other person, the vehicle in which they are carried shall be deemed to be a bus whether the payments are solely in respect of the journey or not.