Lords hit 'nosey' Li
31st March 1978, Page 20
31st March 1978
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Page 20, 31st March 1978
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PROTESTS at licensing orities who demand t( audited accounts from cants requiring a restr operator's licence to r lorry were voiced in the I last week.
Earl Ferrers describe( practice as "an intolerab terference in the pri financial affairs of memb( the public", and press& Government to see that ii stopped.
He quoted the cases of small businesses and far asked to produce auc accounts when applying licence to run a sugar lorry.
It could not be right i person who applied just : licence to have to pro4 accounts showing his coi ny's profits and balance s and the amount of mon( the business. It was to irrelevant, said Lord Ferre Lord Orr-Ewing said th a case of renewing a lic the man must have know' costs of running his lorr the previous year.