To enable the Sub-Committee to consider an application for the renewal of a Hackney Carriage Driver’s Licence where the applicant has disclosed a medical condition.

RESOLVED that having considered the application, the named individual’s licence be suspended until such time as a report from an Occupational Health Therapist can be obtained. The reasons for this suspension were as follows:-

“Members are concerned at the lack of information regarding what the named individual can safely undertake and are concerned as much for the named individual as his passengers. 

Members are also concerned about the failure to disclose the issues on his first application and again that the Doctor had stated that there were no issues.  For these reasons it has been decided that there is a need for more information from an Occupational Health Therapist to establish what the named individual can do safely and what, if any, adjustments might need to be considered.  Once the Council has received the Occupational Health Therapists report, for which the named individual will need to pay (the Council can provide details of Occupational Health Therapists) the Sub-Committee will then re-consider this renewal application for a licence and any possible exemption(s) under the relevant Regulations.”