Issue - meetings

The Licensing Officer provided a summary of the updated Taxi Policy for the approval of the Committee. An amendment to the current policy is sought in relation to the production of driving licences as part of the application process.

The current policy states: Applicants must have held a full GB or EU driving licence for at least two years when applying for a licence. If you do not fall into the categories above and you have a foreign driving licence you must have held a valid licence for at least two years, of which 12 months must have been GB or EU. The two years commences from the issue date of the licence, rather than the date of passing the test.

It is requested that reference to EU licences is removed on the grounds that driving licence status checks on offences and endorsements cannot be carried out on EU licences. Therefore, going forward is request that the policy states that all applicants must have a UK licence to enable checks to be conducted.

 It is further requested that existing licence holders who are operating on a UK driving licence must transfer to a UK licence before the expiry of their current dual drivers’ licence issued by this authority.

RESOLVED that, the Licensing Committee approve the changes to the Taxi Policy.