Consultation and Public Notices

Public Notices

Proposed Variation of Hackney Carriage Table of Fares

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to section 65 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, Cheshire East Borough Council (‘the Council’) proposes to vary the table of fares in respect of the hire of hackney carriages within hackney carriage zone 1 (Congleton zone) and hackney carriage zone 3 (Macclesfield zone).

Any person wishing to object to the variation of the table of fares must do so in writing by no later than 24th February 2012. Objections must be sent to the Licensing Section, Westfields, Middlewich Road, Sandbach, Cheshire CW11 1HZ or by e-mail to licensing@cheshireeast.gov.uk.

If no objections to the proposed variation are made by 24th February 2012, or if all such objections are withdrawn, the variation shall come into operation on the date of expiration of the consultation period (i.e. 25th February 2012) or the date of withdrawal of the objection, or if more than one, of the last objection, whichever date is the later. In the event that objections are made and not withdrawn, these will be referred to a meeting of the Council’s Licensing Committee for consideration.

Caroline Elwood, Borough Solicitor
Dated: 8th February 2012

Street Trading

Section 3 and Schedule 4 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of Council on 13th October 2011 Cheshire East Borough Council (‘the Council’) resolved that Schedule 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended) (‘the 1982 Act’) shall be adopted and shall apply to the Borough of Cheshire East with effect from 1st December 2011.

The predecessor district councils (i.e. Congleton Borough Council, Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council and Macclesfield Borough Council) previously resolved to adopt the provisions of Schedule 4 of the 1982 Act, which relate to the regulation of street trading. The Council’s resolution has the effect of confirming the application of the provisions across the whole of the Borough of Cheshire East.

‘Street trading’ for the purposes of Schedule 4 means, subject to certain exemptions, the selling or exposing or offering for sale of any article (including a living thing) in a street. Schedule 4 of the 1982 Act allows local authorities to designate streets as prohibited streets (i.e. where street trading is prohibited), licence streets (i.e. where street trading is only permitted under the authorisation of a licence granted by the authority), or consent streets (i.e. where street trading is only permitted under the authorisation of a consent issued by the authority).

A person who engages in trading in a prohibited street or engages in street trading in a licence or consent street without being authorised to do so commits an offence and is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,000.

Dated: 26th October 2011. Caroline Elwood, Borough Solicitor.

Tattooing, Piercing and Acupuncture Licence

Part VIII, Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended) (‘the 1982 Act’), that on 13th October 2011 Cheshire East Borough Council (‘the Council’) resolved that the provisions of sections 14 to 17 of the 1982 Act be adopted and shall apply within the Borough of Cheshire East (‘the Borough’) with effect from 1st December 2011.

The Council further resolved that, from the date the adoption takes effect, section 15 of the 1982 Act shall apply, within the Borough, to persons carrying on the business of tattooing, of semi-permanent skin-colouring, of cosmetic piercing or of electrolysis. Section 14 of the 1982 Act applies to persons carrying on the practice of acupuncture.

The effect of the resolution is to require both (i) persons carrying on the business of tattooing, of semi-permanent skin colouring, of cosmetic piercing, or of electrolysis within the Borough; and (ii) those carrying on the practice of acupuncture within the Borough, to register both themselves and the premises where the business/practice is to be carried on with the Council. The requirements within sections 14 and 15 of the 1982 Act do not apply to the carrying on of such a business by or under the supervision of a person who is registered as a medical practitioner (or a dentist in the case of acupuncture) or to the premises of such a person. Failure to register is an offence, for which the penalty on summary convictions is a fine not exceeding £1,000.

The predecessor district councils (i.e. Congleton Borough Council, Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council and Macclesfield Borough Council) previously resolved to adopt the provisions of sections 14 to 17 of the 1982 Act; the resolution made on 13th October 2011 has been made to confirm the adoption within the Borough.