L.A.s Cannot Make Limited Period Variations says Tribunal
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TO my knowledge, at least three I Licensing Authorities, as a matter of general practice, grant licence variations for shorter periods than the licence has to run before it expires. As a result of legal argument before the Transport Tribunal last week in a pre-appeal showdown concerning A. T. Booth (Manchester) Ltd., the Tribunal said that a Licensing Authority could not vary an A or B licence for a limited period. Their ruling will be given in writing.
As stated in The Commercial Motor last week, the appeal proper—against the refusal of the North Western deputy
Licensing Authority to uplift (and thus regularize) the weights of two articulated units was heard on Monday.
In order to achieve this, a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work has gone on in the Tribunal. Leaving aside the fact that members of the Tribunal had agreed to sit an extra day hearing the appeal, the staff of the Tribunal has had to make special arrangements to have documents and transcripts copied.
(In a short report of this case last week it was stated that the matter had come before the Tribunal ex parse. This was not so. In fact, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw represented the respondents.)