11-12/02 - Consideration of Fitness to Hold a Hackney Carriage Driver Licence
To consider whether the holder of a Hackney Carriage Driver Licence remains ‘a fit and proper person’ to hold a licence and to determine the future of their Hackney Carriage Driver Licence.
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Minutes:
The Sub-Committee considered a report regarding a complaint made against the holder of a Hackney Carriage Driver’s Licence which involved allegations of incivility and of parking a licensed Hackney Carriage vehicle in a designated disabled parking bay.
The Sub-Committee was informed that the application fell within the Council’s policy for determination by the Sub-Committee. Accordingly the hearing had been convened to enable the Sub-Committee to determine whether the licence holder remained a fit and proper person to hold a Hackney Carriage Driver’s Licence.
The licence holder and the complainant attended the hearing and made representations in respect of the complaint.
After a full hearing, and in accordance with the rules of procedure, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee reported that, after taking account of all the evidence, including the complainant’s and the licence holder’s oral representations, the following course of action had been agreed.
RESOLVED
(a) That the licence holder remains a fit and proper person to hold a Hackney Carriage Driver’s Licence;
(b) That a warning be issued to the licence holder in respect of his future conduct and the importance both of treating all members of the public in a civil manner and of complying with the parking restrictions about disabled spaces.