AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
(MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 NOT BEING ENFORCED
Plymouth applied to parliament for what’s become known as: The Plymouth City Council Act 1975.
[Plymouth City Council archives] This act still governs PHVs in Plymouth today.
www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/PCCA%201 975_1.pdf
[Plymouth City Council archives] Section 145 states:
“With reference to minute 104, on the further report of the City Solicitor and Secretary, Resolved that the resolution of the City Council passed at a meeting held on the fourth day of November 1974, to promote the Bill entitled: ‘A Bill to confer further powers on the Council of the City of Plymouth in relation to Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles; and for other purposes’ which has been deposited in Parlia- ment pursuant to that resolution be and the same is hereby confirmed.”
This extract is from the parliamentary archives.
It is a well written document that absolutely outlines the structure for operating and driving private hire vehicles in the city boundaries of Plymouth.
All vehicles, drivers and operators that operate in their city had to be licensed by Plymouth City Council and abide by all the conditions attached.
Most important to the crossborder hiring argument is clause 35: -
35. Nothing in this Act shall— (1) apply to a vehicle used for bringing passengers or goods within the city in pursuance of a contract for the hire of the vehicle made outside the city if the vehicle is not made available for hire within the city;
In the original Bill, debated in the House of Lords, it shows in the comments, that this section was originally in section 38 of the Liverpool Corporation Act 1972 (another private act which that council made to solve its problems with PHVs).
[Parliament archives] MARCH 2022
[Parliamentary Hansard] 7
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