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07 Apr 2017

New Section 182 Guidance Published 2017

The Home Office has today published the latest edition of the s.182 Guidance to the Licensing Act 2003. It principally reflects a number of very recent changes to the law as brought into force by the Immigration Act 2016 (see our previous article...

05 Apr 2017

Immigration Act 2016 - and licensing - Guidance issued

We refer to our previous news on the impact of the new Immigration Act 2016 on the licensing process. The Home Office has just issued Guidance on the impact, application and enforcement of these provisions which can be found here.  The Guid...

04 Apr 2017

House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report published

At midnight last night, the House of Lords Committee report was published. It can be found here.  Running to some 180 pages in all, the contents will take some digesting but here is the summary of the Report’s conclusions and recommend...

29 Mar 2017

House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report imminently due!

The report of House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 is due to be published next Tuesday – 4 April. To remind - this House of Lords Select Committee has been conducting post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act, afte...

21 Mar 2017

Gloucester City Council postpone Late Night Levy decision

A meeting scheduled this week regarding Late night Levy Proposals,  has been postponed until the 24th July 2017. The Council indicated that it had received a number of consultation responses requesting a Business Improvement District (BID) t...

20 Mar 2017

Gambling - 4th Money Laundering Directive

The Treasury has recently released their response to their public consultation relating to the European 4th Money Laundering Directive. Under the existing Money Laundering Regulation, only holders of a casino operating licence are subject to the r...