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Taxi driver medical in North Ayrshire

Which doctor North Ayrshire will accept, how often you have to repeat it and which form they want. Councils disagree with each other on every one of those, so this is North Ayrshire’s answer and nobody else’s.

What North Ayrshire requires

• “any other substantial change in circumstances since the application for this licence was made, which includes any change of address or a change in the trading name, and which also covers medical conditions which affect the ability to drive”
• How often: North Ayrshire publishes no routine medical requirement at all - not on its taxi licence pages, its information document or its driver licence conditions. The only published medical duty is to tell the council about any medical condition affecting your ability to drive

Taken from Taxi Driver Licence Conditions - the duty to notify changes including medical conditions. Rules change and councils rewrite their pages without notice, so confirm before you book and pay. If something here is wrong please say and I will check it against the council and fix it.

How North Ayrshire compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, North Ayrshire is one of 35 that publish nothing on who may carry it out.

Who may sign it in nearby areas

Neighbouring authorities do not follow each other on this, and a certificate accepted in one is regularly refused in the next. Check the area whose badge you actually hold.

Licensing area	Who can carry out the medical
Renfrewshire	The council does not say
Inverclyde	The council does it themselves
East Renfrewshire	The council does not say
West Dunbartonshire	The council does not say
Glasgow	Only a provider the council names
East Ayrshire	The council does not say
East Dunbartonshire	Your own GP only
North Lanarkshire	The council does not say
South Ayrshire	The council does not say
Argyll and Bute	The council does it themselves
Dumfries and Galloway	The council does it themselves

What it costs to be licensed in North Ayrshire

The medical is one bill among several. See what North Ayrshire charges for the driver, vehicle and operator licences, taken from the same published sources.

Every line above is taken from North Ayrshire’s own published guidance and read by hand against that source. Nothing here is from trade press, a forum or an estimate. This is not medical or legal advice.

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