Taxi company licences and insurance providers (FOI)

Request

Please send me the information to which I am entitled under Article 8 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, in relation to the following:

• Trading Licences

• Vehicle Registrations

• Listed Insurance Providers

For the following two taxi / cab companies:

• Luxicabs Ltd.

• Liberty Passenger Services Limited

The relevant documentation should date back to the 18 of January 2018, in order to show any possible changes, within the last year, to the validity and or ownership of those trading licences, vehicle registrations and Insurance Policies.

Please note that I am aware that D.V.S. is not the provider of insurance for either of these companies and so I understand that the information you may hold with regards to their insurance policies would be limited if anything at all. If you only keep on record the details of whom the insurance providers are, in order to determine that the companies are in fact insured, then please state the details you do hold for the insurance provider(s) of both companies, for the entire period of 2018.

Response

Trading Licences

The information held for Luxicabs Ltd, which is within the specified date range, and shows possible changes in relation to Trading Licenses, is already publicly available. Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

The information publicly available can be located at the following link:

JFSC Companies Register

We do not hold any relevant documentation within the specified date range that shows possible changes in relation to Trading Licenses for Liberty Passengers Services Ltd.

Registrations

The information you have requested in relation to registration particulars is also available to you by other means, in accordance with the Motor Vehicle Registration (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 1993 Article 19.

Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

The process for requesting this information is to submit an application form (see PDF below) and return it to Driver and Vehicle Standards, La Collette, St Helier, Jersey, JE1 3UE together with an administration fee of £9.00.

Application for disclosure of information from the vehicle register

Insurance

Copies of Insurance Policies held on our files show the following:

• Luxicabs is insured by The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited, valid for the period 1 June 2018 to 30 April 2019

• Liberty Passenger Services Ltd is insured by The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society, Limited valid for the period 1 June 2018 to 30 April 2019

Article applied

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.