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• "We are able to report that any contractor with a national standard licence may pull Channel Islands trailers," Legal Bulletin is informed by Ward & Associates, of Hayling Island, Hampshire.
One of this firm's clients was charged by the police in Portsmouth for failing to produce seven days tachograph records and carrying out an international journey on a standard national operator's licence; the case was heard in front of magistrates.
The client was pulling, from Portsmouth docks, a Jersey trailer, and pleaded not guilty on the grounds that no definition had ever been achieved for the Channel Islands as to whether they are national or international. After lengthy discourse and deliberation, the magistrates decided that the definition hung on the word "frontier", as the European Economic Community and member states definition of an international journey is when a frontier has been crossed. The magistrates returned that the journey was not international as they considered the Channel Islands to be a national operation, and therefore the charges were dismissed.
"While we appreciate this decision was only a magistrates' decision," says C. B. Ward, "we are reliably informed that the police will not appeal and therefore we are able to report that any contractor with a national standard licence may pull Channel Islands trailers."