Issue - meetings

To consider the proposed Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers’ Licence Conditions.

The Committee considered a report regarding the proposed licence conditions for hackney carriage and private hire drivers, which had been approved for consultation by the Licensing Committee at its meeting on 14 January 2009.

The Solicitor reported that, since the report had been published, it had become apparent that a representation had been made in relation to these conditions within the consultation period and therefore should have been referred to within the report.  The comments made had been sent to Members of the Committee, and copies were tabled at the meeting.

RESOLVED – That, subject to the following amendments, the proposed licence conditions for hackney carriage and private hire drivers be approved for implementation from 1 April 2009:

·                    2 Conduct  (vii) to be amended to read: ‘ not to play any sound reproducing equipment within the vehicle other than for communicating with the operator/proprietor without the express consent of the hirer’

·                    5 Fares/Taximeters  (iv) to be amended to read: ‘The driver shall proceed to the destination by the shortest possible route unless:

(a)   he/she receives an express direction given by the hirer; or

(b)   he/she receives express consent of the hirer to an alternative route.’

·                                           Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles to be renumbered 8

·                                           Lost Property to be renumbered 9

·                                           Criminal Convictions to be renumbered 10

·                                           9 Lost Property  (ii) to be amended to read: ‘The driver must take any property left in the vehicle to a police station, wherever possible within twenty four hours and in any event no longer than within forty-eight hours, and obtain a receipt for the property.’