Tuesday 18 December 2012
Sex offenders face taxi driving ban
"Rules surrounding sex offenders [sic] becoming taxi drivers are set to be tightened after a review.
Preston Council conducted a consultation looking at automatically banning any sex offenders [sic] from driving taxis in Preston. It was one of 44 questions asked as part of a public consultation over the city’s taxi trade. The authority has now said legal advice meant there couldn’t be an automatic ban on sex offenders becoming taxi drivers.
However anyone convicted of serious sexual assault will have to go before a tax sub-committee, where councillors will be “minded not to approve” them.
Serious offences have been defined as rape, sexual assault, indecent assault, and possession [just that?] of indecent images of children ['serious']."
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/sex-offenders-face-taxi-driving-ban-1-5234299
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