Agenda and minutes

Taxi Licensing Sub Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 1.30 p.m.

Venue: The Board Room - Municipal Building, Widnes. View directions

Contact: Please contact Kim Butler on 0151 511 7496 or Email: kim.butler@halton.gov.uk for further information 

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20.

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Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on the 2 October 2024 having been circulated were signed as a correct record.

 

21.

Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 and the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985

PART II

 

In this case the Committee has a discretion to exclude the press and public and, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, it is RECOMMENDED that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, having been satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.

 

Minutes:

The Board considered:

 

1)    whether members of the press and public should be excluded from the meeting of the Board during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be considered, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972; and

 

2)    whether the disclosure of information was in the public interest, whether any relevant exemptions were applicable and whether, when applying the public interest test and exemptions, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed that in disclosing the information.

 

RESOLVED:  That, as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information, members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

22.

Taxi Licensing Matter

Minutes:

Case   782

 

RESOLVED:   That the Single Status Driver’s Licence be suspended for a period of 14 days and an official warning letter be issued.