Well this is unusual
Presumably he was convicted in error, and the powers-that-be were unaware that he'd submitted the declaration at the time. Or something like that.
I mean, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing that he could have rectified by the driver after the event, but it kind of reads a bit like that...
Bolton taxi driver regains licence after conviction set aside
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/25 ... set-aside/
A taxi driver has regained his private hire licence after getting a conviction successfully set aside.
Bolton Council’s licensing committee met earlier this month on February 3, when the matter was brought before them as “an item of urgency”.
The identity of the driver has not been revealed and the meeting was closed to the public, but the minutes were recently released.
The council had revoked his licence on April 2, 2024, after he was convicted of speeding, using his vehicle without lights at night and failing to give the identity of a driver.
But the driver had submitted a statutory declaration which successfully resulted in the conviction for failing to give the identity of a driver being set aside.
The committee said “the circumstances of the decision had now changed” and the driver “now only had two fixed penalty speeding convictions”.
They voted to reverse the decision to revoke his private hire licence and instead send him the “usual warning letter” reminding him of the need to keep to the speed limits.
