Page 7 - AVRO News Issue 1 March

Avro vs Chief Constable of

Scotland

b y way of update to our members we would This is good news. It is clear this is happening as a result of

advise that the present position in the court
the action taken by AVRO to address the unlawful conduct
action is as follows:
that has been taking place. It is clear there is now an intent
to remedy this issue.
The case was scheduled to go to a final
hearing during February. Two weeks before that
AVRO are participating in the consultation process. They
hearing the Chief Constable’s lawyers asked the court have attended a meeting and that meeting was productive.
for the hearing to be postponed. They were successful
in persuading the court to do so. Of importance here * Other stakeholders have been invited to the consultation
however, is the reason they asked the court for a period as a result of AVRO’s actions with a view to revising
postponement. the current rates.

They did so as they accept the operators appointed by
them, are currently rendering charges that are unlawful as
they do not comply with the permitted statuary charges.
Their position is that the currently allowed charges are
not “fit for purpose” and that the legislation needs to be
amended. A consultation process is now ongoing to allow
this to happen.

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