Agenda and minutes

Registration and Licensing Committee - Monday, 19th December, 2016 10.00 am

Venue: Port Talbot Civic Centre - Committee Room 1/2

Contact: Charlotte-Louise Davies  Committee/Member Admin Officer

Items
No. Item

1.

Immigration Act 2016 - Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers pdf icon PDF 70 KB

Minutes:

Members discussed the circulated report and felt it was very important to have safeguards in place, when dealing with public protection.

 

RESOLVED:        that the report be noted.

2.

Taxi Licensing Policy (Amendments) pdf icon PDF 69 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED:         that the Taxi Licensing Policy be amended at Paragraphs 2.3; 2.7; 2.10; 4.3 and at Appendix A, as detailed within the circulated report.

3.

Urgent Item

Minutes:

Because of the need to deal now with the matter contained in Minute No. 5 below, the Chairperson agreed that this could be raised at today’s meeting as an Urgent Item pursuant to Section 100B (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

Reason:

 

Due to the time element.

4.

Access to Meetings

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

that pursuant to Section 100A(4) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded for the following item of business which involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 12 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the above Act.

 

5.

Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver Licensing - Case 1

Minutes:

RESOLVED:         that the hackney carriage and private hire driver licence be renewed, subject to the applicant signing a declaration confirming he has had no criminal convictions since the submission of his previous DBS check.