0-licence refused after directors' non-disclosure
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roger.browniarbi.co.uk WASTE INTERNATIONAL has had its 0-licence application refused after failing to disclose its directors had previously operated a company that had its licence revoked, as well as having another application for a licence refused.
In a written decision following a public inquiry held in June in Eastbourne. Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) Miles Dorrington said the directors of the North°It. Middlesex-based company had committed "serious misconduct" by failing to disclose that their former business Total Waste had its 0-licence revoked following a public inquiry in October 2008, as well as a subsequent new application in April 2009 refused. The DTC said the directors Paresh Parekh, Dipesh Patel and Jay Patel-had failed to declare the information on their GV79 form licence application for two vehicles, but Jay Patel told the hearing that the mistakes had been caused by an administrative error.
However, the DTC said Waste International had acted in a "manner that was intended to mislead and deceive" the Office of the Traffic Commissioner when the application for the licence was made, because the firm would have known the GV79 fonri was "false when it was submitted".
The DTC added: -In this case,
the applicant, and in particular Mr Jay Patel, would have known that the [GV79 form I required disclosure of the revoked operator's licence and the refused operator's licence. To put such a clear and repeated failure in disclosure down to an 'administrative error' is neither plausible, nor is it acceptable, as an excuse in all the circumstances of this case."
Dorrington also held that Waste international's interim 0-licence would cease to exist "with immediate effect-.
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