Croft Travel (Lancashire) Ltd (t/a Croft Travel): [2024] UKUT 132 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Mitchell on 26 April 2024.
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Judicial Summary
The holder of a standard Public Service Vehicle (PSV) licence, issued under the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981, was not entitled to assume that the Traffic Commissioner would grant a further period of grace allowing the operator to operate without a designated transport, once the operator had submitted an application to the Commissioner for approval of a replacement transport manager. This was the second incomplete application submitted by the operator and it could not reasonably have assumed that the Commissioner would approve its proposed transport manager. The Commissioner did not unfairly lead the operator to believe that, once it had submitted its transport manager application, it did not need to request a further period of grace and, in consequence, the Commissioner did not unfairly revoke the operator’s PSV licence on the ground that it no longer had a designated transport manager who satisfied the requirements of the 1981 Act.