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Election of Chair for the Council Year 2018-19 Minutes: The Committee Services Officer opened the meeting.
The Committee elected Councillor Clarkson to be the Chair for the Council Year 2018/19.
Cllr Clarkson took the Chair.
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Election of Vice-Chair for the Council Year 2018-19 Minutes: The Committee elected Councillor Cook to be the Vice Chair for the Council Year 2018/19.
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: None. |
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Appointment of Sub-Committees 2018-19 PDF 97 KB The Head of Law and Governance has submitted a report to establish 4 sub-committees for the 2018-19 Council Year to deal with the casework flowing from the Committee’s own responsibilities.
Recommendations: That the General Purposes Licensing Committee resolves to:
1.Agree that the casework hearings for taxi, private hire or other driver or vehicle licences, street trading licences and sex establishment licences should be determined by sub-committees as set out in the Powers and Duties of GPL Sub-Committees at Appendix 1. 2.Establish 4 politically-balanced sub-committees of 3 members, and agree the membership, each to undertake the casework of the General Purposes Licensing Committee as follows: •Sub- Committee A: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr A, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee B: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr B, Lib Dem Cllr B •Sub- Committee C: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr C, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee D: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr D, Lib Dem Cllr B 3. Agree that substitution is permitted on each of the 4 sub-committees but that substitutes must be from the General Purposes Licensing Committee and must maintain political proportionality; and 4. Agree the meeting dates and time listed below.
All meetings start at 5.30pm Additional documents: Minutes: The Head of Law and Governance had submitted a report to establish 4 sub-committees for the 2018-19 Council Year to deal with the casework flowing from the Committee’s own responsibilities.
The Committee resolved to:
1. Agree that the casework hearings for taxi, private hire or other driver or vehicle licences, street trading licences and sex establishment licences should be determined by sub-committees as set out in the Powers and Duties of GPL Sub-Committees at Appendix 1;
2. Establish 4 politically-balanced sub-committees of 3 members, and agree the membership, each to undertake the casework of the General Purposes Licensing Committee as follows: •Sub- Committee A: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr A, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee B: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr B, Lib Dem Cllr B •Sub- Committee C: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr C, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee D: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr D, Lib Dem Cllr B;
2. Agree that substitution is permitted on each of the 4 sub-committees but that substitutes must be from the General Purposes Licensing Committee and must maintain political proportionality;
3. Agree the meeting dates and time listed below; and
4. Agree that the names of members for the 4 sub-committees be agreed outside the meeting
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Update on Taxi Licensing Activity Council Year 2017- 18 PDF 132 KB The Head of Community Services has submitted a report to inform Committee of the progress made by the Taxi Licensing during 2017-18.
Recommendations: That the General Purposes Licensing Committee resolves to:
1. Note the contents of the report; 2. Make any comments and recommendations regarding the future work of the Taxi Licensing Function Minutes: The Head of Community Services has submitted a report to inform Committee of the progress made by the Taxi Licensing during 2017-18.
The Committee resolved to:
Note the contents of the report.
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Amendments to the Hackney Carriage & Private Hire Driver and Vehicle Criteria PDF 95 KB The Head of Community Services has submitted a reportto recommend amendments in relation to the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver and Vehiclecriteria.
Recommendations: That the General Purposes Licensing Committee resolves to: 1. Approve the implementation of the Annual Background Checks Form (Appendix 1) in regards to three year Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers Licence criteria; 2. Approve a minor amendment to the Policy on the Relevance of Warnings, Offences, Cautions and Convictions to include term ‘Released Under Police Investigation’ to be notifiable to the Council by a Licensed driver (Appendix 2); 3. Approve administrative changes to the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers Applications Pack where some content is outdated (Appendix 3); 4. Approve the proposed amendments to Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles “Conditions of Fitness” (Appendix 4) to allow licensing of Ultra Low Emission Vehicles; and 5. Agree that such proposals be put to Council for adoption.
Additional documents: Minutes: The Head of Community Services had submitted a reportto recommend amendments in relation to the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver and Vehiclecriteria.
The Committee resolved to:
1. Approve the implementation of the Annual Background Checks Form (Appendix 1) in regards to three year Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers Licence criteria;
2. Approve a minor amendment to the Policy on the Relevance of Warnings, Offences, Cautions and Convictions to include term ‘Released Under Police Investigation’ to be notifiable to the Council by a Licensed driver (Appendix 2);
3. Approve administrative changes to the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers Applications Pack where some content is outdated (Appendix 3);
4. Approve the proposed amendments to Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles “Conditions of Fitness” (Appendix 4) to allow licensing of Ultra Low Emission Vehicles; and
5. Agree that such proposals be put to Council for adoption.
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Recommendation: That the minutes of the meeting held on 24 January 2018 be APPROVED as a true and accurate record.
Minutes: The Committee resolved to:
Approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24 January as a true and accurate record.
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Dates of Future Meetings The next meetings of the Committee are scheduled to take place on:
· 19 September 2018 · 23 January 2019
All meetings start at 6.00pm
Minutes: The next meetings of the Committee are scheduled to take place on:
· 19 September 2018 · 23 January 2019
All meetings start at 6.00pm
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