Guidance

Taxi and private hire vehicle licensing: best practice

Best practice guidance to help local licensing authorities to carry out their taxi and private hire vehicle licensing functions.

Documents

Model byelaws for taxis

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Driver vehicle checklist

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Details

The documents on this page are:

  • taxi and private hire vehicle licensing best practice guidance for licensing authorities in England
  • private hire vehicle licensing guidance note
  • taxi byelaws: guidance and the byelaw making process
  • model byelaws for taxis
  • model driver vehicle checklist
  • sample notices between taxi or private hire vehicle driver and passenger

Updates to this page

Published 2 March 2010
Last updated 17 November 2023 + show all updates
  1. Best practice guidance updated and guidance on licensing and byelaws added.

  2. First published.

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