MR T wrote:
Here's the Keith Hill letter:
http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/KeithHilll ... -Boyce.pdfplease read the link.... and if you don't understand it..... borrow a small child to explain
Read, understood and sent to Head of Environmental Health at Cannock Chase Council along with the following accompanying letter.
Quote:
Dear Mr Shilvock,
Please find enclosed a letter from Keith Hill MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, to Bryan Roland, General Secretary of the National Private Hire Association, dated 18 October 2000.
The letter confirms that mechanics may legally road test Private Hire vehicles on the basis that it would never have been the intention of relevant legislation to prohibit such testing where it is clearly in the interests of ensuring that licensed vehicles are safe and roadworthy.
Naturally the same would also apply to Hackney Carriage vehicles.
In accordance with the advice in the letter I have sought further clarification from Mr Schiller of Dennings LLP who has confirmed that mechanics, provided they have the appropriate insurance cover, may road test HC and PH vehicles.
On this basis, a requirement to notify the council in advance of such road test by a mechanic would be unnecessary and adverse to the public interest, especially if it was necessary to arrange such test at very short notice and/or over the weekend.
The proposal to require such notification is therefore coded RED in accordance with colour codes mentioned in previous responses to this consultation process as well as in the Press. RED means that the proposal would almost certainly be the subject of appeal in the courts should it become a condition of licence.
I trust that you will now strike out this proposal.
Yours sincerely,
Steven Toy
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