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09/04 Application for a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence

Meeting: 05/11/2009 - Licensing Sub-Committee (Item 36)

36 09/04 Application for a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence

To consider an application for a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence.

Minutes:

The Sub-Committee considered a report regarding an application for the renewal of a Hackney Carriage Drivers Licence and the grant of a joint Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence.

 

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 application for a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence should be granted.

 

The applicant and his representative attended the hearing and made representations in respect of his application.

 

After a full hearing of the application and in accordance with the rules of procedure, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee reported that after taking account of all of the evidence, including the applicant’s oral representations, the following course of action had been agreed.

 

RESOLVED – That the applicant was a fit and proper person to hold a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Driver’s Licence and that the application for a Licence be granted subject to the requirement that the applicant successfully completed the Council’s theory test relating to the private hire element of the Licence.  In addition the Committee informed the applicant that should any further incidents occur in the future, he would be summoned to attend a meeting of the Licensing Sub Committee to determine the future of his Licence.