Private Hire Vehicle Licensing
Meeting: 13/03/2009 - Licensing Committee (Item 34)
34 PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLE LICENSING 
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To consider the proposed private hire vehicle licence conditions.
Additional documents:
- Appendix A to report, item 34
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- Appendix B to report, item 34
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- PHV conditions post consultation, item 34
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- phv representations, item 34
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Minutes:
The Committee considered a report detailing the responses received from the private hire trade regarding the proposed licence conditions for private hire vehicles which had been approved for consultation by the Licensing Committee at its meeting on 14 January 2009.
RESOLVED
(a) That the proposed licence conditions in relation to private hire vehicles, as amended following the consultation exercise, be approved for implementation from 1 April 2009.
(b) That a further consultation exercise be undertaken with the holders of private hire vehicle licences on the proposal to amend the wording of the first sentence of condition number 1.4 to:
‘It shall have a minimum number of four doors, including two on the near side and two on the offside’.