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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: No plate needed?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:15 pm 
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Whats exempt, weddings and funerals only?

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grandad
 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:33 pm 
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Firstly, once licensed the plate must always be on the vehicle if it is a Hackney. For private hire vehicles a council may give an exemption from displaying the plate. If a vehicle is only doing weddings and funerals it is exempt from being licensed.

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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:33 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Whats exempt, weddings and funerals only?

Technically yes.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
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Sussex wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
Whats exempt, weddings and funerals only?

Technically yes.


define "wedding"

To the church and back? or then to the hotel/airport?

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 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
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wannabeeahack wrote:
define "wedding"

I would define it as a car to and from the Wedding service.

And I remember reading a case or article a long time back suggesting just that.

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roythebus
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There is case law that says basically to and from the church/reception/to airport afterwards, only if immediately connected with the wedding, not the hen-night the previous day as some limo operators seem to think.
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grandad
 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
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roythebus wrote:
not the hen-night the previous day as some limo operators seem to think.

I think the licensing of limos and what they can and can't do was sorted years ago.

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 Post subject: Re: No plate needed?
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grandad wrote:
roythebus wrote:
not the hen-night the previous day as some limo operators seem to think.

I think the licensing of limos and what they can and can't do was sorted years ago.


I can plate almost any age and upto 8 seats, inc LHD, etc

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