NEW DRIVER BADGE

APPLICATION

Please complete the application form, BLOCK CAPITALS AND BLACK INK, and ring 0161 912 4242 to
make an appointment to submit your application-***You will not be seen without a pre-booked
appointment***
THE CRITERIA AND DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY FOR A PRIVATE HIRE OR HACKNEY
CARRIAGE DRIVER BADGE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

 All applicants must be OVER 21 years of age

 Produce a full valid UK Driver’s Licence. Every applicant must hold a full current UK driving licence
at the date of the application and must have held the full UK licence for at least ONE YEAR.
If you hold the new type of DVLA licence you are required to produce both the photocard and green
paper counterpart

 Produce a valid PASSPORT (and Work Visa if appropriate) OR

BIRTH CERTIFICATE (issued within 12 months of birth OR a certified more recent copy)

 Produce ONE recent passport photograph

 Written proof of your National Insurance Number

 Produce ONE of the following documents :

P45 or P60 (issued within the last 12 months) OR a UK Marriage or UK Civil Ceremony Certificate
Bank or Building Society statement (dated within the last 3 months)
Gas, Electric, Water or Home Telephone bill (dated within the last 3 months) (Not mobile bills)
Credit Card Statement (dated within the last 3 months) (Not store cards or catalogue cards)
Mortgage Statement (issued within last 12 months) OR Council Tax Statement (issued within last 12
months) OR Benefit statement (dated within last 3 months) OR Adoption Certificate

 Produce a Statutory declaration (page 3 of this booklet), declared before a Solicitor, a

Commissioner for Oaths or a Justice of the Peace. If you have Motoring or Criminal convictions, which
also includes points on your driving licence, please write details in the box on page 3. If you have no
convictions to declare, it is important that you write the word “None” in the appropriate box. If you leave
the box blank we will not be able to accept the application.

 At your appointment you will be required to complete a DBS/Criminal Records form. You will
need your address and postcode details for the last 5 years. If you have lived outside of the UK
for any periods during the last 5 years you must provide a letter of good conduct or a police
report from the relevant country.

 The applicant must pass a WRITTEN KNOWLEDGE TEST for either hackney carriage or private hire
based on the type of licence for which they have applied. The test covers sections on ROUTES; PUBS
CLUBS and RESTAURANTS; PLACES OF INTEREST; DRIVER CONDITIONS. If you fail your first
test you make take re-sits at a cost of £32 for the full re-sit OR £11 partial retest as required.

 AT A LATER STAGE we will provide a form for you to obtain a reference from a Private Hire Operator
or Hackney Carriage Owner from whom you will be obtaining your work.

 AT A LATER STAGE the applicant will be required to provide a medical report, from their own general
practitioner, confirming fitness to drive a licensed vehicle. The medical certificate is only required after
the successful completion of the knowledge test and the CRB report and the form will be given to the
applicant by the Licensing Officer

 The total FEE for a new application is £290.00. (Licences £128.00 : Knowledge Test £118.00 :
Enhanced CRB £44.00) Payment can be made by CASH, DEBIT CARD or CHEQUE. Cheques should
be made payable to Trafford Council and will only be accepted if accompanied with a valid banker’s
card

If you have any enquiries the licensing staff will be pleased to help. Telephone: 0161 912 4242. The licensing
office is open to the public during the hours of 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Monday to
Friday at TRAFFORD TOWN HALL, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 OTH
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PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO DRIVE A HACKNEY CARRIAGE OR PRIVATE
HIRE VEHICLE WITHOUT A DRIVER’S LICENCE ISSUED BY THE COUNCIL
The Council cannot issue a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Driver’s Licence unless they are satisfied
that an applicant is a fit and proper person to hold such a Licence.

Full details of applicant:

1. SURNAME DATE OF BIRTH

2. FORENAMES TITLE MR MRS MISS MS

3. PRESENT ADDRESS

POSTCODE
How long at this house? TEL NUMBER
E-MAIL ADDRESS

4. National Insurance Number

*****WRITTEN PROOF OF YOUR NI NUMBER MUST BE PRODUCED*****

5. Do you intend to work as a full or part-time Days Nights

driver T
6. Do you hold a full UK driving licence and have you held it for at least 12
months? YES NO

7. Do you have the right to work in the United Kingdom?

YES NO

8. Have you ever been refused a licence concerned with Hackney Carriage or
Private Hire Vehicles or drivers or had such a licence suspended or revoked YES NO

If yes, give full details including the local authority and date:

APPLICANTS ARE ADVISED THAT TO MAKE KNOWINGLY OR RECKLESSLY A FALSE

STATEMENT OR OMIT ANY MATERIAL FROM THIS APPLICATION IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE .

I declare that the information given in this application is true.

If a licence is granted I undertake to comply with all conditions and legislation attached to the
said licence and failure to do so will result in the licence being revoked or not renewed by the
Council. I also undertake to partake of sufficient rest and refreshment whilst engaged in driving
Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Vehicles.

SIGNED DATED

ANY PERSON AGGRIEVED BY THE REFUSAL OF THE COUNCIL TO GRANT A DRIVER’S LICENCE MAY
APPEAL TO A MAGISTRATES COURT.
Warning –
We must protect the public funds we handle and so we may use the information you have provided
on this form to prevent and detect fraud. We may also share this information, for the same purposes,
with other organisations which handle public funds.

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 STATUTORY DECLARATION
(See overleaf for Explanatory Notes)

(FULL NAME) (FULL ADDRESS)

1. of

Date of birth:

Do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:-

(DECLARATION 1 AND 2 RELATE TO ALL OFFENCES INCLUDING CAUTIONS AND ANY MOTORING OFFENCES)

1. I have never been convicted and imprisoned or fined or placed on probation or conditionally discharged OR
CAUTIONED for ANY offence. (* You MUST write the word “NONE” in the box below).

2. I have been convicted and imprisoned or fined or placed on probation or conditionally discharged or cautioned for an
offence or offences and I list below within the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offences Act 1974 the offence or offences
including the date of the offence, the place the offence was committed and the sentence imposed by the Court. I
have not been convicted for any other offence. (List details below) Includes Motoring and Criminal Offences.

3. I have an impending prosecution. (List details below) Includes Motoring and Criminal Offences.

(Delete either Paragraph 1 or 2 and initial same)

Date Offence Description and Sentence or Order of

Place of Court Court

If you have no convictions to declare, it is important that you write the word “NONE” in the above space

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same along with the answers given in the attached
application form to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835 and Section 5 of the Perjury
Act 1911

Declared at

Signature of Applicant

This Day of

In the County of

Before me,

Solicitor/Commissioner for Oaths, Justice of the Peace

Office Address

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 EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENCES ACT 1974

The above Act provides that after a certain lapse of time, convictions for criminal and motoring offences are to
be regarded as “spent”.

AN APPLICANT NEED NOT DISCLOSE ANY CONVICTIONS THAT ARE “SPENT” e.g. a conviction with a
fine six years ago is generally considered “spent”.

The Council will not take “spent” convictions into account when deciding upon an application, other than under
exceptional circumstances.

Sentences of imprisonment or youth custody exceeding 30 months are never “spent” and must be disclosed
however long ago they were imposed. The periods of time which must elapse in other cases before the
conviction becomes spent are generally as follows:-

SENTENCE TIME BEFORE CONVICTION

BECOMES “SPENT”

1. A sentence of imprisonment or youth custody between 6 and 10 years

30 months.

2. A sentence of imprisonment or youth custody of 6 months or 7 years

less.

3. A fine or any other sentence not otherwise mentioned. 5 years

4. Cashiering, discharge with ignominy or dismissal with disgrace 10 years

from HM Service.

5. Dismissal from HM Services. 7 years

6. Probation. 5 years

7. Conditional discharge, bound over. 1 year or period of discharge

(whichever is longer)

8. Absolute discharge. 6 months

9. Disqualification, disability or prohibition. Period of disqualification disability or

prohibition unless a longer period as
set out in 1-8 above applies

10. Attendance Centre Order. Period of Order and a further year

after the order expires

NOTE: SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT AND YOUTH CUSTODY INCLUDE SUSPENDED SENTENCES

IF UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE ON DATE OF CONVICTION HALVE REHABILITATION PERIOD IN

RESPECT OF 1-6 ABOVE

The periods of time which must elapse in other cases before the conviction becomes spent vary considerably
according to the nature of the offence and other circumstances. The rehabilitation period may, for example, be
extended by the commission of a further offence during the rehabilitation period.

Other guidance on this may be obtained from a Solicitor or from the Home Office publication “A Guide to the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974” available from HMSO, Princess Street, Manchester.

APPLICANTS SHOULD NOTE THAT TO MAKE A FALSE STATUTORY DECLARATION IS A SERIOUS

OFFENCE. PUNISHABLE UPON CONVICTION BY IMPRISONMENT FOR A TERM NOT EXCEEDING TWO
YEARS OR TO A FINE TO BE DECIDED BY THE COURT OR BOTH.

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 STATEMENT OF LICENSING POLICY ON THE HANDLING OF DISCLOSURE
INFORMATION

TRAFFORD COUNCIL WILL:

 Ensure that Disclosure information is not passed to persons not authorised to receive it under
section 124 of the Police Act 1997;

 Ensure that Disclosures and the information they contain are available only to those who need
to have access in the course of their duties;

 Securely store Disclosures and the information they contain;

 Retain neither Disclosures nor a record of Disclosure information contained within them for
longer than is required for the particular purpose. In general, this will be no later than six
months after the date on which the relevant decision has been taken, or after the date on which
any dispute about the accuracy of the Disclosure information has been resolved. This period
will be exceeded only in very exceptional circumstances which justify retention for a longer
period.

This statement is made in accordance with the ‘Code of Practice and Explanatory Guide for Registered
Persons and other recipients of Disclosure Information’ published by the Criminal Records Bureau.

A copy of the Code of Practice is available on request from Trafford Council’s Licensing Office.

For further information on Trafford’s Policy regarding the use of Criminal Records to determine new
applications for Hackney Carriage or Private Hire driver licences please refer to Trafford’s website
www.trafford.gov.uk (Licensing/A to Z of licences/Taxi driver’s licence/Related forms section)

CRB Licensing Policy

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 ETHNIC MONITORING FORM

Trafford Council is committed to eliminating unlawful racial discrimination and promoting

equality of opportunity and good relations between individuals and communities.

To enable the Licensing Section to monitor its current practices to ensure that they comply
with the Council's general commitment to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, would
you please complete this monitoring form.

Please tick the box which you believe best describes your ethnic origin. Your ethnic origin is
not related to your nationality, place of birth, or citizenship. It describes your colour and
broad ethnic group. UK citizens can belong to any of the groups indicated below.

White Black or Black British

 British □  Caribbean □
 Irish □  African □
 Any other white background □  Any other black background □

Mixed Race Chinese or other ethnic group

 White and Black African □  Chinese □
 White and Asian □  Any other ethnic group □
 Any other mixed background □ (Please specify)

Asian or Asian British

 Indian □
 Pakistani □
 Bangladeshi □
 Any other Asian background □

Thank you for taking time to complete this part of the form.

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 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

PAYMENT £ RECEIPT NUMBER DATE

CHEQUE/CASH/DEBIT CARD

KNOWLEDGE TEST RESULT INITIALS/COMMENTS

Initial
KT
Re-sits
1ST

2ND

3RD

4TH

5TH

6TH

BYELAWS/CONDITIONS DATE
RECEIVED
APPLICANT SIGNATURE

CRB REPORT RECEIVED DATE CONVICTIONS?

NOTES

DOC 6C DRIVERS
REVISED APRIL 2013