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- This page provides information about the procedure you need to follow in order to obtain a private hire vehicle licence. It includes the required vehicle specifications, obtaining a licence plate and gives a list of approved garages.
- Following a series of major accidents and deaths at Sports Grounds, the need to ensure the safety of sports grounds became apparent. The Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 placed this control with Local Authorities, and the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sports Act 1987 made it a duty of Local Authorities to enforce the Acts.
- The law requires anyone running a Zoo to be licensed. These licences help to ensure that animals are properly looked after, by setting standards for the premises and for the level of care given.
- The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 aims to ensure that where private individuals keep dangerous wild animals they do so in circumstances which create no risk to the public and which safeguard the welfare of the animals.
- To authorise the supply of alcohol and regulated entertainment in a qualifying club you need a club premises certificate from your local authority.
- If you wish to hold an ad-hoc event in England or Wales, you must give a temporary event notice (TEN) to your local licensing authority no later than ten working days before the event.
- To provide late-night refreshments and regulated entertainment, and sell alcohol, you need a licence from the local authority if you are in England and Wales.
- Good governance leads to good management, good performance, good stewardship of public money, good public engagement and, ultimately, good outcomes for citizens and service users. Good governance enables an authority to pursue its vision effectively as well as underpinning that vision with mechanisms for control and management of risk.
- The authority is required to issue licences and set conditions on hackney carriages and private hire taxis to ensure the vehicles used are safe and comfortable and that the drivers are fit and proper persons, medically fit, knowledgeable and free from relevant convictions.
- Torfaen County Borough Council as a Data Controller is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. This Privacy Notice explains how we use information about you and how we protect your privacy.
Last Modified: 05/12/2018
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