Sussex wrote:
The statutes weren't enacted for driver's conveniences, they were enacted for public safety.
Indeed, but if there's nothing wrong in law with a car working in Blackpool being plated by Wolverhampton, and you then take a reasonableness approach the the legislative provisions on testing, then it's surely reasonable to test in Blackpool rather than Wolverhampton?
Like you, I think it's all a nonsense, and you'd have my full support for a judicial review (say), if you wanted to fund it
But we are where we are, and if cars can work hundreds of miles from where they're plated, then I don't see local testing as being particularly unreasonable.
Sussex wrote:
Having a testing station that is never visited by council officials, and vehicles that are never seen by council officials are not what the legislators envisaged when they passed those acts.
Indeed, but that could happen in Craven (say), if the testing process is contracted out to local garages.
Assuming, of course, that they can find a garage in Craven willing to take the thing on
But I'm not really a fan of this kind of contracting out of taxi tests anyway...