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Tue 08 Aug 2010Challenge to road tax instruction on business vehicles
A CO Tipperary farmer has said he intends asking the High Court for leave to legally challenge the validity of the Department of the Environment’s instruction to local authorities to clamp down on the use of commercial vehicles for social purposes.
John Burke told Mr Justice Peter Charleton that on August 23rd last the Minister for the Environment John Gormley had indicated his intention to direct local authorities to force owners of commercial jeeps and vans to sign a declaration not to use them for social, domestic or pleasure purposes.
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