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now they are going to be hackney i suppose they can then come on the ranks as well
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknew ... lution.php

Not the issue at hand, but is this bit now a given?

The issue is being considered now after members decided to remove a previous restriction on the number of hackney carriage licences at their November meeting, subject to review.

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IDFIMH

I'll have to check it out but isn't there still an appeal currently outstanding in London over this Rickshaw hackney carriage issue?

Regards

JD

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TfL have been given permission for a Judicial Appeal, but if I remember rightly London's act slightly differs from us in relation to these things.

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IDFIMH

How the hell do you need a drivers licence for a bike

Same as you do for a horse and cart, and one of those boat things in Cambridge.

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IDFIMH

A CAR LICENCE FOR THEM AS WELL

Mind you it is a little confusing having the word DRIVERS LICENCE when they should have said a cycling proficiency test

I was reading this case two or three weeks ago because I intended to refer to it in another thread but as per usual time passed me by.

TFL were granted a judicial review on 24 January 2007 and bug bugs appealed that decision. The appeal was dismissed but the comments of the judge are most significant.

The appeal was heard on 25 October 2007 and struck out.

Bugbugs had sought to strike out the decision, on the grounds of abuse of process of a claim made under CPR Part 8 by Transport for London for a declaration that a pedicab is a "hackney carriage" for the purposes of section 4 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 ("the 1869 Act").

York would be well advised to wait on this decision before they license any pedicabs.

Regards

JD

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The case I referred to can be found on bailii.org.

Anyone interested in the outcome of whether a pedicab is a hackney carriage or not should pay particular attention to the the references to paragraph 16 schedule 1 of the 1985 act and in particular to the opening words of that paragraph and to the case of Beg.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2007/2987.html

Regards

JD

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