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A taxi driver must ask passengers if they are suffering from plague or smallpox.
This is part of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, sections 33 and 34: Public Conveyances. The taxi driver has a right to refuse anyone who may have a notifiable disease, or they may elect to transport you and then immediately disinfect their vehicle (unlike a bus driver, who must refuse you altogether)….
Except on Sundays, it is lawful to kill a Scotsman in York if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
However, any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow. Similarly, in Chester, it is legal to shoot a Welsh person with a crossbow, as long as it is within the city walls and is done after midnight. This was actually on the…
It is illegal to eat mince pies on December 25.
This decree from Oliver Cromwell in 1644 was meant to combat gluttony. You’re all criminals!
It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.
Nineteenth century, the bastion of women’s lib.