[zeusjazmin]

when i was aproached by polis and asked to produce my licence,i told them to follow m,e to my van,which was 30 feet away,showed them licence and was instantly charged for not having it on my person

[ducky]

tam k cant get on the  fourm .sent u a p.m on another forum

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zeus the Police were wrong on that and you could contest that, the law only states that you should produce a licence when questioned. It does not state that you have to carry it with you. Would be interested in the details if you so wish and we will put the Ayrshire Police correct.

[ronniemc]

No licence required in South Ayrshire although it is something I would actively encourage the council to implement.

[visiontechnician]

Dave jp,

Where abouts in moray do you live? Elgin?

[Dave JP]

Visiontechnician - I live in Forres, but cover some Findhorn as well.
Dave.

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No licence required in South Ayrshire although it is something I would actively encourage the council to implement.

South Ayrshire were the only Council that wanted the licence deregulated in the 2002 consultation, you will often find the reason behind this is their workforce who do the Council's windows would not be fit to hold a licence. There is one Council that supports offenders doing window cleaning as rehab.

The Council has changed hands since then so maybe worth while seeing if there are other window cleaners in your area that would support this move.

[Dean Aspects]

Doug is their any hope of a multi area licence as i now need three and as you know i fully support the licence but getting three to me is over the top at over £200

Dean

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Dean

One of the areas we are looking into is getting the license boundaries changed.

At present if you want to work in more than one region you need a seperate license for each region, some regions require you to have several licenses.

We think this is all wrong and were looking at the posssibility of a national license, however going by responses the Police are against this, as they want to basically keep tabs on who is working within their areas.

The Councils, from a revenue point of view may also be against this.

What we would like to see if the national license proposal fell through, would be for a license by constabulary area, this would mean you still apply to your local council for the license, but you get to work within the boundaries of Tayside Police, rather than council boundaries. No point in applying for 3 licenses and having Tayside Police carry out the same background checks on you 3 times.

Hope you know what I am getting at, if not I am sure Doug will clarify a bit clearer.

Tam K

[Dean Aspects]

That sounds a lot fairer system but as you say would each council like to lose on the revenue but if more window cleaners are licenced then that should not be a problem

Dean

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Tam beat me to it  

Having read the consultation reviews, a few Councils were in favour of recognising their neighbouring Councils licences. But the biggest objection was the window cleaning licence comes under the Civic Act along with other trades. The law of covering mutiple licenses covers all civic trades.

If the law was to be changed then the window cleaners licence would have to have a seperate law. This will then have an adverse reaction with other civic trades who would want the same deal. So the majority of councils rejected the proposal.

But that is not to say it is not worth fighting for as per Tam's comments. This will not happen overnight as we have to see how the SLWCN can petition Government to see about getting that changed. As you are aware this is a complicated task.

My advise is to add the costs of the licence onto your customers and make sure you sell the licence to them, this is what I find works with having more than one licence.