What affects us as far as the SBC LA is concerned is all in here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/574067/Guidance-for-licensing-authorities-to-prevent-illegal-working-in-the-taxi-and-private-hire-car-sector-in-Scotland.pdfThough I reckon the Council is Mis reading the act...It reads:
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When will this guidance be relevant?
The checking requirements are not retrospective. This means that licensing authorities do not have to check the immigration status of those people who already hold a
PHC or taxi driver’slicence which was issued before 1 December 2016 or sent their licence application to the licensing authority before this date.
The check must be performed when the applicant first applies i.e. sends the application for a licence to the licensing authority or
first applies to renew their licence or extend their licence
on or after 1 December 2016.#Apostmark may be acceptable evidence of date of application
Those of us who's renewal is not our first renewal should not be require to do all this....It simply says First Applies....In my case I've applied about 5 times for renewal over 15 years...
How would you read and interpret "First Applies to Renew" it, does anyone else do this? if it meant otherwise it would simply have read "at Renewal" and not at "First Renewal"