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GMB PERSPECTIVE


The following is an extract from the GMB Policy Document supporting an ‘Intend- ed Use Policy’ for hackney carriage / private hire vehicles as well as the operator licence.


The full document can be read on www.gmbtaxis.org.uk/iup


Please note that is not set in stone but is to be used as a stepping stone for the trade to work on...


1: INTRODUCTION 2015 DEREGULATION ACT – WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG


There is no intention here to bring up this old dust ball in fine detail. However it is abundantly clear that the changes to the taxi/private hire trade which may have been support- ed by MP’s and those in power, such as Baroness Kramer, in good faith - or even possibly knowing the full and eventual outcome - turned out to be a case of utter turmoil and strife to the trade as well as local licensing authorities.


Putting aside the changes to the period of driver licences issued from one year to three years and concentrating on the ‘Triple Lock’: the supposed original intention was to lay down the conditions whereby a licensed operator passes a job to another licensed operator, thus ensuring the ‘Triple Lock’ was in place.


The ‘Triple Lock’ means all three licences from the same licensing authority must be in place for a private hire book- ing to be legal, these being the driver, vehicle and operator licence.


That was nice and simple in its basic terms, as an operator in ‘Area A’ taking a job in ‘Area B’ could then be confident that the whole process was legal when sub-contracting that job to the operator in ‘Area B’ that used drivers and vehicles licensed in ‘Area B’ - thus complying with the ‘Triple Lock’.


It was not supposed to encourage the operator in ‘Area A’ to intentionally place cars licensed in ‘Area A’ to predominantly work in Area ‘B’ with the effect of eroding local licensing control in ‘Area B’.


Baroness Kramer and those who supported all of this must be very proud of their work......


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2: CROSS-BORDER HIRING BACKGROUND


Now that the 2018 Task and Finish Group – Taxis and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Recommendations on the major abuse of cross-border hiring have been ignored by the gov- ernment and excluded from the 2020 DfT Taxi & Private Hire Statutory Standards, the GMB is now backing a change in legislation to balance the ‘Triple Lock’ system.


It has been widespread in the taxi/private hire trade throughout the country that the ‘‘Triple Lock’ has been highly abused, a major cause of the erosion of local licensing control and a diminishment of local enforcement thus ren- dering it pointless.


The intention is to require all local authorities to be com- pelled to set a condition of licensing for all three core licences, namely: hackney carriage vehicles, private hire vehicles and private hire operators which will be known as the ‘Triple Intended Use Policy’ (Triple IUP).


This will compel local licensing authorities to have in place a signed declaration from the proprietor for both the hackney carriage and private hire vehicle licence applications that the vehicle will not be predominantly used and placed outside of the licensing area for the intention of being hired. Any vehi- cle used in such a way risks the revocation of the licence.


For the operator licence a declaration will be in place that it will not purposely, intentionally and predominantly place vehicles under its control in an area where its vehicles are not licensed for the purpose of being hired.


There is no intention to stop natural transit hirings across dif- fering licensing authorities commonly known as cross-border hiring.


3: INTENDED USE POLICY FOR THE TWO VEHICLE LICENCES - EXPLAINED


a) Licensed vehicles: To stop the loophole of a hackney car- riage/private hire vehicle that has been licensed in area ‘A’ (with specific and relevant licensing conditions to its own area) with the intent of purposely and predominantly being used in a completely different area of ‘Z’ (that has its own specific and relevant licensing conditions) for the purpose of being hired out of sight and mind of its


SEPTEMBER 2020


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