Scottish P.H. bill.

Much has been said about the UK governments decision to rush through 3 Ph section to its current deregualtion bill.

Unions and Council's all over the Country are up in arms, except Manchester, who do not know about it yet, as there is nobody in the office (apologies for absence).

I told you as long ago as last May that Scotland was holding its own mini Law Commission.

http://www.mcrblackcab.proboards.com/thread/2705/scotland-mini-law-commission

If you are in a Union and nobody has told you about this, I would suggest you ask why you pay the best part of £20 a month, for information that is on here for free.

However I did not expect the ridiculous out come this week, the Jocks have attached a couple of P.H. provisions to, of all things, an Air Weapons Bill. I kid you not.

The interesting thing is, they grant councils the power to restrict private hire numbers in area's where the Local Authority believe there is an over provision of vehicles.

The contract exemptions we talk about in our post of last year have also been repealed.

One immediate casualty of that repeal is P.C.S of Northumberland (and formerley of Manchester Airport) who were abusing the Scottish exemption.

Our own report and draft bill will be with us on Friday, so get up early and log on, you will get it first.

The report is over 200 pages long and the Bill over 50 pages long so it will not be posted in full on here.  I will load it on the cloud somewhere and post a link. If you are not happy downloading, because of data excetra send an Email to :  acnedriver@gmail.com.

Identify yourself and I will send you either/ or both folders directley.

It would be useful to hope that our bill grants the power to restrict P.H numbers, because lets face it, the situation here in Town this week has shown we are getting swamped. There are that many hire vehicles running around Town, it is getting hard to breath.

However, we do not have a cristal ball, lets wait 30 hours or so and see.

Refer to section 60 and 62 of the attached PDF

http://tinyurl.com/o8fb5pa