Non-notifiable Cases Protest
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A PROTEST has been made to the
Ministry of Transport by the Yorkshire Area of Associated Road Operators concerning the procedure in the Yorkshire Traffic Area in relation to applications for goods-licence variations which involve a reduction in the aggregate unladen weight authorized.
It is complained that a number of such applications has not been dealt with as non-notifiable cases, but has been listed for hearing before the Licensing Authority. This procedure, it is argued, deprives the applicants of the rights to which they are entitled under Section 10, Sub-section 2 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, whereby cer tain cases can be classed as non-notifiable applications, against which there is no right of objection.
The complaint comes under two heads. In the first place, it is contended that the listing of the applications for hearing gives the railway companies an opportunity of indulging iu what have come to be known as "fishing expeditions," for gaining information of applicant's operations.
In the second place, it means that the applicant has to wait for weeks pending the listing and the hearing, whereas if the applications were classed as non-notifiable they would be dealt with almost immediately.