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New Tools for Regulators
The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), which is part of the department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), has now made available a new online tool for the use of the Regulators of the leisure industry. The intention is to secu...
Scotland - 5 year Refresher training launched
The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 requires all Personal Licence holders to submit evidence of top-up training to their issuing Licensing Board at the midpoint (5 years) of the life of the personal licence. Yesterday, we attended the launch ...
Licensing Act 2003 - Amendments to Application forms
The Licensing Act 2003 (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 will come into force on 21st March 2013 in order to amend the application forms for: premises licence variations; premises licence minor variations; and club premises ce...
DCMS - Live Music Act Guidance
Last week, the DCMS has recently published a useful summary of the legal status of live music following the introduction of the Live Music Act 2012. This activity has now been deregulated in a range of circumstances from whi...
Basic good housekeeping always important!
It can be the easiest things which are overlooked! The recent successful prosecution of and resultant fine imposed on a Bristol area licensee over a series of ‘minor’ licensing transgressions reinforces the need for on-going and...
HMRC Update on VAT for Betting, Gaming and Lotteries.
Following on in part due to the change in Duty on gaming (and other) machines, HMRC has issued an updated notice to explain how VAT applies to machine games and more generally to betting and gaming aswell as bingo and lotteries. T...