Agenda
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A special meeting of the Highland Licensing Committee will take place in Committee Room 1, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 10.30 am.
You are invited to attend and a note of the business to be considered is attached.
Webcast Notice: This meeting will not be broadcast.
Members are reminded that during determination of Licensing Items, in order to be entitled to participate in any vote, Members must be present throughout all of the proceedings.
Members are further reminded that mobile devices, including mobile phones, can be used for following the agenda/reports and delivering speeches but should not be used for any form of communication (text or tweet) during the meeting.
Yours faithfully
Alaisdair Mackenzie, Legal Manager
(for Depute Chief Executive/Director of Corporate Development)
Business
(Chair – Ms Maxine Smith)
1. Apologies for Absence
Leisgeulan
2. Declarations of Interest
Foillseachaidhean Com-pàirt
Members are asked to consider whether they have an interest to declare in relation to any item on the agenda for this meeting. Any Member making a declaration of interest should indicate whether it is a financial or non-financial interest and include some information on the nature of the interest. Advice may be sought from Officers prior to the meeting taking place.
3. The Committee is asked to resolve that, under Section 50A(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the public be excluded from the meeting during discussion of the following Items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.
4. Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 Applciation for Taxi Driver’s
Achd Riaghaltais Chatharra (Alba) 1982 Iarrtasan airson Cheadachdan do Dhràibhearan
17.1 Application for Renewal of Taxi Driver’s Licence – Mr Raymond Paterson
There is circulated to members only Report No HLC/057/14 (pp 1 –4) by the Legal Manager relating to an application which has been received from Mr Raymond Paterson for the renewal of his taxi driver’s licence (Culloden and Ardersier Ward).
The Committee is invited to determine this application in accordance with the Council’s Hearings Procedure (p 5).
Minutes
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Minute of the special meeting of the Highland Licensing Committee held in Committee Room 1, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Thursday 25 September 2014 at 10.30 am.
Present:
Dr I Cockburn , Mr A Duffy, Mrs G Sinclair, Ms M Smith, Mr H Wood,
In Attendance:
Ms S Blease, Principal Solicitor (Regulatory Services)
Mr M Elsey, Senior Licensing Officer
Mrs A MacArthur, Administrative Assistant
Also Attending:
Detective Inspector A Ingram, Police Scotland
Sergeant S Campbell, Police Scotland
Ms M Smith in the Chair
The Chair confirmed that the meeting would not be webcast.
Business
1. Apologies for Absence
Leisgeulan
Apologies for absence were intimated on behalf of Mr C Fraser, Mr R Greene, Mr A Henderson, Mr W Mackay, Mr J Rosie and Mr J Stone.
2. Declarations of Interest
Foillseachaidhean Com-pàirt
There were no declarations of interest.
3. The Committee resolved that, under Section 50A(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the public be excluded from the meeting during discussion of Items 4 on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.
4. Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982
Application for Taxi Driver’s Licence
Achd Riaghaltais Chatharra (Alba) 1982
Iarrtasan airson Cheadachdan do Dhràibhearan
4.1 Application for Renewal of Taxi Driver’s Licence – Mr Raymond Paterson
There had been circulated to members only Report No HLC/057/14 by the Legal Manager which related to an application which had been received from Mr Raymond Paterson for the renewal of a taxi driver’s licence.
Mr R Paterson did not attend the meeting. Nor did any representative attend to speak on behalf of Mr Paterson.
The Senior Licensing Officer advised that following receipt of a letter from Police Scotland, the Legal Manager had suspended this licence in terms of paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982. The suspension only had effect to the date of this meeting. Members were asked to determine whether the licence holder remained a fit and proper person to hold a taxi driver’s licence and whether any action should be taken against the licence holder in the form of an order under Paragraph 11 suspending his licence. He confirmed that Mr Paterson had been invited to attend the meeting and had subsequently submitted a letter advising that he was no longer driving a taxi and that he did not intend renewing his licence when it expired.
The Committee heard from Detective Inspector A Ingram, Police Scotland.
The Committee AGREED to suspend the licence under paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 with immediate effect and for the unexpired portion of the duration of the licence on the grounds that the licence holder is no longer a fit and proper person to hold the licence and that the carrying on of the activity to which the licence relates is likely to cause a threat to public safety.
The meeting closed at 10.45 pm.