Agenda item - Non Payment of Fares Notice
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Non Payment of Fares Notice
- Meeting of Licensing Committee (Non Licensing Act 2003 Functions), Thursday, 20th November, 2014 3.00pm (Item 19.)
- View the background to item 19.
Report of the Director of Public Health (copy attached)
Minutes:
19.1 The Committee considered a report of the Director of Public Health seeking approval of the wording of the notice for use in Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles designed to deter non-payment of taxi fares.
19.2 The Hackney Carriage Officer explained that the suggested wording agreed by the Trade and Sussex Police was:
“Before hiring this vehicle:
- Please ensure you have the means to pay. Deliberate failure to make payments before leaving this vehicle is a Criminal Offence.”
19.3 The Hackney Carriage Officer, Martin Seymour explained that the trade had requested permission to use a notice to include Sussex Police and Council Logos in vehicles to help prevent the deliberate non-payment of fares by some customers and to raise awareness that non-payment was a criminal offence. The trade have been working with Sussex Police on the wording of a notice and were now requesting that the agreed wording was approved by Committee for use in Hackney Carriage and Private Hire vehicles.
19.4 RESOLVED – That the Committee approve the notice wording set out on Paragraph 3.4 of the report and above and use of the Council logo on any notice produced.
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