Due to the unforeseen circumstances that we have found ourselves in, our medical practitioners are now moving to telephone consultations only so we will not be sending any of our applicants/licenceholders for a medical until further notice. We will be contacting individual applicants who already have appointments to advise that they have been cancelled.

Please be advised that all annual tests for taxis and private hire vehicles have been cancelled until further notice. If you’ve already received appointments for your tests, do not attend the appointments. We will be in contact with you, later in the year, with any new arrangements we put in place. The garages will make every effort to accommodate any requests for substitution of vehicles but it is likely that they will only be carried out in an emergency situation. In the meantime, we would ask you to continue to maintain your vehicles, to the high standards you’ve always done & use the Council’s service sheets to assist you in continuing with your maintenance regimes.

Maybe if they didn't have all the tests undertaken in the same period they wouldn't need to do this.

Always seemed a right daft thing to do.

All MOTs suspended after 30th March so our Council have extended plates for 6 months.

We now have a new procedure in place for Taxi and Private Hire substitutions as follows:

Fleet Operations are only dealing with emergency substitutions for the foreseeable future. It is also looking unlikely that there will be any further annual inspection tests carried out this year, although that is subject to change. We will, however, be carrying out random testing of vehicles, in all areas, at some point this year.

Please be reminded that it is the operator’s responsibility to ensure that you have valid insurance for all your licensed vehicles, at all times, & if any of your vehicles are over 1 year old, you must also have valid MOT certificates for these vehicles.

Emergency substitutions will only be considered to replace vehicles that have been in an accident, have broken down/have a serious fault or need to be replaced, due to a financial contract you have, and you need to have another vehicle on the road.

Applications for substitutions will not be accepted in any of our offices or garages. All substitutions are by appointment only.

Please complete the application at the link below & email it, with the appropriate documentation, to Misc.Licensing@fife.gov.uk