( I) The registering authority shall at the time of granting a licence to any driver of a hackney carriage, furnish him with a metal badge punched or marked with the number of his licence.
(2) Every driver to whom such badge is delivered shall, at all times while actmg as driver, wear such badge exposed to view.
(3) In case any such driver omits to wear such badge exposed to vtew whlie acting as dt iver he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten rupees.
(4) Whenever the number on any badge becomes mdistinct or Is obliterated dunng the term of the licf'nce, or whenever any badge is lost or stolen, the person to whom the hcence relating to any such badge has been granted shall deliver such badge or notify its loss and shall produce such licence to the registermg authority, and such person shall then be entitled to have a new licence and badge delivered to him upon payment of the fee specified in section 21. Such new licence shall be in force for the year of registration.
(5) Every person licensed under the authority oftlus Act who uses or wears the badge granted to him after the wntmg thereon has become indistinct or obliterated shall be liable to a fine not excf'edmg ten rupees.
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