Issue - meetings

The Panel considered a report to inform them of an application for a new Dual Driver’s licence, which, due to a conviction recorded against the Applicant calls in to question their fitness and propriety to be a suitable person to hold such a licence.  As such, the application was referred to the Panel for determination.

RESOLVED that, based on the information provided to the Panel, having taken into account the reason the Applicant has appeared before the Panel, the report written by the Officer, their recommendations, the Applicant’s comments and the Council's Statement of Fitness and Suitability that the Applicant is a fit and proper person as his conviction for failing to give information as to the identity of driver related to a vehicle he had sold six months earlier and accordingly he be GRANTED a licence for a period of one year, with the licence to be renewed for a further two years if no complaints are received about the Applicant’s conduct in the meantime.

NOTE: The Applicant attended the meeting to address the Panel.