Certificate of Good Conduct

Due to the potential lifetime relevance for some of the most serious offences mentioned in the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Policy.

The Council needs to ensure that sufficient background checks are conducted for those applicants that have lived overseas. This is in addition to the Enhanced Disclosure Barring (DBS) requirement.

Any driver who has lived abroad will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct from the embassy of every country where they have lived other than the UK (after the age of 10 years old). These must be no older than three months at time of presentation and must be translated into English at the applicants own cost.

A licence will not be granted or renewed in the absence of a current Certificate of Good Conduct. 

Where a person has spent three months or more, on active service, or any similar deployments abroad as a member of the British Armed Forces, then they are exempt from the requirement to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct but will require a reference from a commanding officer authorised to provide the same.

If an existing driver has spent three continuous months (or more) living or on holiday overseas, the Council will need to see evidence of a criminal record check from the country/countries visited, covering the period that the applicant was overseas.