[2025] UKUT 231 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber

[2025] UKUT 231 (AAC)

Fecha: 20-May-2025

The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to allow the appeal. We order that the Traffic Commissioner’s revocation of Britannia Bus Ltd’s operator’s licence, notified in a letter of 22 May 2024, be set as

The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to allow the appeal.We order that the Traffic Commissioner’s revocation of Britannia Bus Ltd’s operator’s licence, notified in a letter of 22 May 2024, be set aside.

Subject matter

Revocation of licences

Procedure for granting time to rectify situation of non-satisfaction of requirements (a “period of grace”)

Cases referred to

Bradley Fold Travel Ltd & anor v Secretary of State for Transport [2010] EWCA Civ 695

Egertons Recovery Group Ltd [2022] UKUT 141 (AAC)

REASONS FOR DECISION

1.

In what follows, (unless the context otherwise indicates) references to “sections” (or “s”) are to sections of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981; and, to avoid having to say “he or she”, the Traffic Commissioner (the “TC”) will be referred to as “it”.