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No action
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NO ACTION is to be taken by the Transport Tribunal in a case where a vehicle operator had failed to attend a public inquiry. Instead the case is being remitted to the North Western Licensing Authority for further consideration.
In May of last year E. Beddard and Co applied for an operator's licence in respect of two vehicles. Because the North Western LA was not entirely satisfied concerning maintenance arrangements an interim licence for six months was granted. When that licence was due to expire the appellant was asked to attend a public inquiry. The appellant did not appear, however, because, it was said, the effective head of the business WEIS away for five weeks. The LA refused a grant because of this.
The Tribunal recalled that the appellant had not attended a public inquiry in 1973 for a similar reason and said that the appellant's office arrangements were "extremely unsatisfactory."
The appellant produced an agreement with a garage firm made three weeks after the date of the public inquiry but the Tribunal said that to consider this would be to take upon itself the duties of the LA, something it had always refused to do. Instead the tribunal remitted the case to the LA for consideration of the garage agreement.