{"id":586,"date":"2015-02-08T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2015-02-08T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T13:55:01","slug":"taxi-regulation-update-jan-2015-paddy-compare-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/taxi-regulation-update-jan-2015-paddy-compare-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Regulation update Jan 2015 &#8211; Paddy Compare news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update to the Taxi Regulation (SPSV) Regulations 2015 was announced on the 31 January 2015 which seen a number of changes to the regs. These include: a taximeter must be in operation for all hires; for fares agreed in advance, the taxi driver can only charge the lower of the amount on the meter or the agreed amount; a taxi roof sign should only be fixed to the roof if being used for carriage of passengers for reward; a list of specific vehicles suitable for new limousine licences will be published; and vehicle licence renewal fee for taxis, hackneys and limousines increases to \u20ac150. Paddy Compare recommends that you as a taxi driver take the time to read the regs in full and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransport.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Taxi_Regulation_Small_Public_Service_Vehicle_Regulations_2015_-_S_I_No_33_of_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download a copy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Paddy Compare you can compare <a href=\"\/taxi-insurance-quote-form\" target=\"_blank\">taxi insurance in Ireland<\/a> free of charge. Simply complete our online taxi insurance quote form and our specialist brokers will contact you with quotes. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you need cover for your taxi, hackney or limo, our partner brokers quote all vehicles. So meet the regs and get cheap <a href=\"\/taxi-insurance\" target=\"_blank\">taxi insurance<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to the Taxi Regulation (SPSV) Regulations 2015 was announced on the 31 January 2015 which seen a number of changes to the regs. These include: a taximeter must be in operation for all hires; for fares agreed in advance, the taxi driver can only charge the lower of the amount on the meter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}