Taxi License Refusal

Taxi license refusal process according to the Home Office

If we judge it necessary to refuse your licence application we will write to you to explain why; you will then have 21 days from the date on our decision letter to provide a response. If we do not receive a response from you within the 21 days the decision to refuse you a licence will automatically take effect.
The type of information you can provide in your response will depend on which category you fall into in our published licensing criteria.
Automatic refusal. Where you are an automatic refusal, you may only tell us of any factual errors in our assessment – for example, an error in respect of your identity, or an error in assessing your qualifications or criminal history.
Consider additional factors. Where you are not an automatic refusal and you fall into the ‘consider additional factors’ category, you will also be invited to provide mitigation.
If you do send in a response within the 21 days we will give it due consideration, and we will write to you to inform you of our decision. If we decide it is still necessary to refuse your licence, you will then have 21 days from the date of this final decision letter in which to exercise a right of appeal to a magistrates’ or sheriff court.
Once our decision to refuse is made we have no power to revisit that decision, no matter how good the mitigation or obvious the factual error, without the direction of a court. If you are having genuine difficulty submitting your evidence within the 21 days you should write to us (within the 21 days) to let us know.

Read the full article on the Home Office website.

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