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Alcohol licensing: a guide for public health teams issued
Public Health England has produced a guide to health teams to ‘make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities’. The guidance is intended to inform on how directors of publi...
Gambling - 2016 prevalence study issued
Each year the Commission publishes, as part of its role as regulator, a report regarding the public participation in Gambling over the previous period. The rise of participation generally and online specifically can be charted through the previou...
Scotland – Licensing Board dates 2017
Operators familiar with the Scottish licensing system will be aware of the importance of when a Board sits to consider a particular application. This is particularly significant for dates from May onwards, given the hiatus to the fixing of such d...
Gambling - Commission going 'online' only
With effect from the 6th April the Gambling Commission will only accept application for new licences through their online portal. The portal has been available for some time; however it will be overhauled by the Commission in anticipation of the ...
Immigration Act 2016 - and its implications for licensing - update and commencement
We refer to our previous news outlining proposed changes to the Licensing Act 2003 being introduced by the above Act (https://www.john-gaunt.co.uk/news/immigration-act-2016-and-its-implications-for-licensing) The amendments to the Licensing Act i...
'Ask for Angela' initiative gaining traction nationally
This scheme launched last year is apparently gaining traction across the country; believed to have started in Lincolnshire, it is now increasing being promoted elsewhere (Google – ‘ask for Angela’) and it has attracted much media...