The London Taxis (Licensing Appeals) Regulations 1986

Statutory Instruments

1986 No. 1188

METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE DISTRICTS

CABS

The London Taxis (Licensing Appeals) Regulations 1986

Made

10th July 1986

Laid before Parliament

11th July 1986

Coming into Operation

1st August 1986

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (5) of the Transport Act 1985, and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the London Taxis (Licensing Appeals) Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1986.

Prescribed period

2.  The period prescribed for the purposes of both subsections (2) and (5) of section 17 of the Transport Act 1985 shall be 28 days from the date of the written notice of the decision of the licensing authority.

John Moore

Secretary of State for Transport

10th July 1986

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Under section 17 of the Transport Act 1985, when a licensing authority refuses to grant a taxi licence under section 6 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 (c.115) or a taxi drivers licence under section 8 of that Act, or suspends or revokes such a licence, he can be asked to reconsider his decision and an appeal can be made to the court. Regulation 2 of these Regulations prescribes 28 days from the date of the notice of the decision as the period within which—

(1) the licensing authority can be asked to reconsider the original decision or an appeal can be made to a court against that decision (under section 17(2) of the Act), and

(2) an appeal can be made to a court against the reconsidered decision (under section 17(5)).

(1)

section 61 was amended by section 135(1) of the Transport Act 1985.