A Torfaen taxi driver has been fined £100 for smoking in his vehicle.

He paid the fixed penalty notice after the council’s licensing team received a complaint that he was smoking in his licensed private hire vehicle. A council report into the licensing team’s work from April 2023 to the end of June 2023 said: “Under the Smoke-free Premises and Vehicles (Wales) Regulations 2020 which came into force on the 1st March 2021, it is against the law to smoke in a vehicle that carries members of the public, therefore a vehicle licensed for either hackney carriage or private hire use is designated as a smoke-free premises. A licensed vehicle is a licensed vehicle at all times, irrespective as to whether or not the vehicle is being used for hackney carriage or private hire purposes.”