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Licence won on deposit

5th December 1996
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• A former bankrupt has succeeded in obtaining an Operator's Licence after agreeing at a Bristol public inquiry to keep £6,000 in a deposit account at his local bank.

Simon Biggs, trading as PBH of Pilning, Bristol, had applied for a new national licence for four vehicles and four trailers.

Western Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh said he would grant a licence for two vehicles and two trailers only when the Traffic Area had received confirmation from Lloyds Bank at Stroud that the money had been deposited.

The Commissioner was concerned about Biggs' connections with Verwood, Prime Steady Services and Passageway, and his conviction for being involved in the management of Verwood while an undeclared bankrupt. He had been given a six months' prison sentence, which was reduced to 14 days on appeal.

For Biggs, Meinir Mathias said that although he had been a shareholder and gen eral manager of Verwood, which went out of business in December 1993, he had not been a director. She said Biggs had been employed as the CPC holder and a driver by PSS, during which time a number of road traffic offences occurred.

That company ceased to trade when its licence application was refused in November 1994, Mathias said. Passageway had sought a licence in March 1995. Biggs had no direct contact with that company, said Mathias, apart from driving for them on occasions.

Biggs said that all he wanted to do was to earn a living. Mervyn Pugh conceded he had now recovered his repute.


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